Medicine Lake Volcano Medicine Lake Volcano Medicine Lake Volcano is a large shield volcano in northeastern California about northeast of Mount Shasta. The volcano is located in a zone of east-west crustal extension east of the main axis of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascade Range. The thick shield is from east to west and from north to south, and covers more than . The underlying rock has downwarped by under the center of the volcano. The volcano is primarily composed of basalt and basaltic andesite lava flows, and has a caldera at the center. The Medicine Lake shield rises about above
Under the Volcano (film) England. There are two documentaries about the making of the Huston film: Gary Conklin's 56-minute "Notes from Under the Volcano" and the 82-minute "Observations Under the Volcano", directed by Christian Blackwood. Under the Volcano (film) Under the Volcano is a 1984 film directed by John Huston, written by Guy Gallo, and starring Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, and Katy Jurado. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Albert Finney) and Best Original Score (Alex North). It is based on the semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry. The film tells the story