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

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)

Trailer

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