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Name: Mysterious Island
Released: 1961-12-1
Cast: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom

Mysterious Island

NR
1h 41m
1961

82%

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Based on Jules Verne's classic novel, Mysterious Island is the story of five men escaping from a Confederate prison in an observation balloon. When they land the balloon, they find themselves on a South Seas island where they encounter pirates, a giant bird, a giant crab and even Captain Nemo.

Director:

Cy Endfield

Producer:

Charles H. Schneer

Writer:

Crane Wilbur, John Prebble, Daniel B. Ullman

Cast:

Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom, Beth Rogan, Percy Herbert

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

82%

Reviews

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Eddie Harrison

..while the stop motion is great, the different film stocks, poorly matched studio and location shots, sub-par glass paintings and film-stock deterioration all take a toll, the technical limitations may leave modern audiencest cool to its many charms..

{A} still very watchable film, one of the superior adaptations of Verne's book

Director Cy Endfield takes the reigns on this big budget spectacle which tends to suffer from a bout of sequel-itis as regards the bombastic fervor of gigantic, menacing creatures taking precedence over characterization or narrative energy.

Amusingly, human pirates provide grimmer antagonists than the colossal flora and fauna, though a detracting element of the film is an overabundance of players.

...a wonderful piece of sci-fi/fantasy with solid acting, a crackerjack script, and otherwise timeless Harryhausen wonder.

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