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| Mysterious Island |
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| Director: Cy Endfield, Richard Schickel |
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Richard Schickel, Crane Wilbur, Daniel B. Ullman, John Prebble, Jules Verne |
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Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom |
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Action & Adventure |
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| Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 |
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(NTSC Widescreen) |
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Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono |
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English, Spanish, French |
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| Studio: Sony Pictures |
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DVD Region: 99 |
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Unrated |
| DVD Release: Oct 2002 |
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Discs: 1 (DVD) [] |
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| Reviews: Jules Verne's classic adventure is perfectly matched with Ray Harryhausen's timeless movie magic in "Mysterious Island". Based on Verne's sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", this rousing Civil War-era fantasy begins when a band of Union war prisoners (and one Confederate straggler) escape in a hot-air balloon, which crash-lands on the titular island of mystery. Verne's novel doesn't include any gigantic creatures, but Harryhausen's version--under the capable direction of genre specialist Cy Endfield--features giant oysters, bees, a prehistoric Phororhacos (a giant chickenlike bird!), an undersea cephalopod, a giant crab, and enough danger to keep its resourceful ensemble on constant alert. Captain Nemo (Herbert Lom, ably filling James Mason's shoes) is a third-act hero, pursuing an ill-fated dream to save humanity from hunger and war. The action may be too intense for younger viewers, but Endfield's pacing and Harryhausen's stop-motion mastery make "Mysterious Island" a wondrous precursor to Harryhausen's follow-up classic, "Jason and the Argonauts". "--Jeff Shannon" |
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