Mysterious Island (1961)
- Directed by
- Cy Endfield, Ray Harryhausen
- Genre
- fantasy film, adventure film, science fiction film, monster film
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 211 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Union soldiers escape a Civil War prison camp in a hot air balloon. They crash land on a mysterious island where they encounter giant animals and other dangers.
old-fashionedwhimsicalepisodicsuspensefulvisually creativeescapistmildly tensenostalgic
What happens
Mysterious Island (UK: Jules Verne's Mysterious Island) is a 1961 science fiction adventure film about prisoners in the American Civil War who escape in a balloon and then find themselves stranded on a remote island populated by giant animals. Loosely based upon the 1874 novel The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse) by Jules Verne (which was the sequel to two other novels by Verne, 1867's In Search of the Castaways and 1870's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas), the film was produced by Charles H. Schneer and directed by Cy Endfield. Shot in Catalonia, Spain, and at Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, England, the film serves as a showcase for Ray Harryhausen's stop motion animation effects. Like several of Harryhausen's classic productions, the musical score was composed by Bernard Herrmann. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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La Grande Vadrouille (1966)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.