A world beyond imagination! Adventure beyond belief!
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jan 20197/10
What I did was in the name of peace. Your war, like all wars, glories in devastation and death. Mysterious Island is a loose adaptation of Jules Verne's novel of the same name. It's out of Columbia Pictures and was filmed at Shepperton Studios in England with exteriors on the coast of Spain. Directed by Cy Endfield, with Ray Harryhausen working his stop motion genius for the creatures, it stars Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom, Beth Rogan, Percy Herbert & Dan Jackson. Bernard Herrmann provides the score. The plot sees three Union soldiers escaping in a gas balloon from a Confederate prison camp during the American Civil War. Also caught up in the escape is a Confederate rebel and a newspaperman. As they battle the elements they are forced to crash land on some island they think is in the Pacific. Here they encounter giant animals that threaten their survival. Soon two ladies are shipwrecked onto the island too, but the strange animals are not the only thing to worry about, the island volcano is close to eruption and they appear to not be the only humans on the island? Though something of a lesser light in the pantheon of fantasy adventure fil
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Cast
- Michael CraigCapt. Cyrus Harding
- Joan GreenwoodLady Mary Fairchild
- Michael CallanHerbert Brown
- Gary MerrillGideon Spilitt
- Herbert LomCaptain Nemo
- Beth RoganElena Fairchild
- Percy HerbertSgt. Pencroft
- Dan JacksonCpl. Neb Nugent
- Harry MontyPirate (uncredited)
Crew
- Cy EndfieldDirector
- John PrebbleScreenplay
- Daniel B. UllmanScreenplay
- Crane WilburScreenplay
- Jules VerneNovel
- Wilkie CooperDirector of Photography
- Bernard HerrmannOriginal Music Composer
- Frederick WilsonEditor
- Charles H. SchneerProducer
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