Mysterious Island (1951)

Directed by

Spencer Gordon Bennet

Genre

fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

4h 12m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After escaping from a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War, a group of men lands on a mysterious island. There they encounter strange animals, alien Mercurians, and the secrets of Captain Nemo. They must survive and find a way off the island.

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What happens

Mysterious Island is a 1951 American 15-chapter movie serial from Columbia Pictures, the studio's 46th, that stars Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle, and Ralph Hodges. It is an adaptation of Jules Verne's 1874 novel, The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse). As in the original story, which was Verne's follow-up to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, this serial is set in 1865. However, Columbia's screenwriters added alien Mercurians as an additional set of villains. The serial has been labeled a space opera version of Verne's novel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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