Mysterious Island
Mysterious Island ★★★½ 1961
Exhilirating sci-fi classic adapted from Jules Verne's novel about escaping Civil War soldiers who go up in Verne balloon and come down on a Pacific island populated by giant animals. They also encounter two shipwrecked English ladies, pirates, and Captain Nemo (and his sub). Top-rate special effects by master Ray Harryhausen. 101m/C VHS, DVD . GB Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom, Beth Rogan, Percy Herbert, Dan Jackson, Nigel Green; D: Cy Endfield; W: John Prebble, Daniel Ullman, Crane Wilbur; C: Wilkie Cooper; M: Bernard Herrmann.
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