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A sci-fi adventure film based on Jules Verne's novel, about prisoners who escape in a balloon and find a remote island with giant and tiny animals. They meet Captain Nemo and his Nautilus, and help him reveal his inventions to the world.
Mysterious Island: Directed by Cy Endfield. With Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill. During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
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- Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- Cy Endfield
- 1961-12-20
The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, serialised from August 1874 to September 1875 and then published in book form in November 1875. The first edition, published by Hetzel, contains illustrations by Jules Férat.
- Jules Verne
- 1875
The storm takes the balloon to a mysterious island near New Zealand in the South Pacific. Captain Harding proclaims himself leader of the group and they look for food. They discover that they are stranded on an island and soon are attacked by a giant crab that becomes their first meal.
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Mysterious Island, American science-fiction adventure film, released in 1961, that is based loosely on Jules Verne’s book of the same name, a sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
In the film a group of Union prisoners escape, via hot-air balloon, from a Confederate stockade during the American Civil War and end up on a mysterious and remote uncharted island. Two stranded women join the prisoners as they battle pirates, escape from a volcano, and fight assorted giant animals and prehistoric monsters. The group eventually meets Captain Nemo (played by Herbert Lom) and discovers that the oversized creatures are part of his ill-fated plan to end starvation around the world.
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•Studio: Columbia Pictures
•Director: Cy Endfield
•Producer: Charles H. Schneer
•Writers: John Prebble, Daniel Ullman, and Crane Wilbur
•Music: Bernard Herrmann
•Running time: 101 minutes
•Michael Craig (Capt. Cyrus Harding)
•Joan Greenwood (Mary)
•Michael Callan (Herbert Brown)
•Gary Merrill (Gideon Spilett)
Learn about the science-fiction adventure film based on Jules Verne's novel, starring Herbert Lom as Captain Nemo. The film features stop-motion animation by Ray Harryhausen and depicts giant animals and prehistoric monsters on a remote island.
- Lee Pfeiffer
A sci-fi adventure film based on Jules Verne's novel, starring Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, and Herbert Lom. Escaped POWs encounter giant animals and Captain Nemo on a mysterious island.
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home.
