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- BFI identifier237740
- Date1961 (Copyright)
1962-08-13 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, USA
- Production company
- SynopsisFantasy adventure. During the American Civil War some soldiers escape from a prison during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, and get away in a hot air balloon during a storm. They are blown severely far from America and end up as castaways on a remote island. There they find some mysterious signs of life, such as a fire burning which none of them has lit, and some enormous creatures such as a giant crab and a fierce giant chicken. Two shipwrecked ladies come ashore in a drifting boat and with the men they form a small community as they plan their escape by building a boat. They are attacked by pirates though, and are saved by the enigmatic Captain Nemo, who has been living in his somewhat disabled submarine the Nautilus in a nearby underwater cave. With the island's volcano soon to erupt, they attempt to arrange an escape on the pirates' ship, which Nemo has sunk in a way that may allow for it to be refloated. (Synopsis)
- Work historyPublicity for the film says it was shot in Superdynamation, but the credit on screen says Dynarama.
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Cy Endfield
©: Ameran Films
Columbia Pictures Corporation presents: Columbia Pictures Corporation
view all - CastMichael Craig (Captain Cyrus Harding)
Joan Greenwood (Lady Mary Fairchild)
Michael Callan (Herbert Brown)
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Title
Mysterious Island (Original)
Jules Verne's Mysterious Island (Help search)
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35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Based on the novel by Jules Verne - SCR-12894
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-237740
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Work - 237740 - 1961 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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