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Title: | Mysterious Island |
Directed by: | Spencer Bennet |
Written by: | Lewis Clay; Royal K. Cole; George H. Plympton |
Produced by: | Sam Katzman |
Cinematography: | Fayte Browne |
Edited by: | Earl Turner |
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Distributed by: | Sam Katzman Productions Columbia Pictures |
Released: | August 23rd, 1951 |
Running time: | 252 min. |
Country: | USA |
Language: | English |
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Mysterious Island is a fifteen-chapter film serial, which is an adaptation of the 1874 novel Mysterious Island by author Jules Verne. The serial was directed by Spencer Bennet with a screenplay written by Lewis Clay, Royal K. Cole and George H. Plympton. The series was produced by Sam Katzman Productions. It was distributed theatrically by Columbia Pictures and screened from August 23rd to September 13th, 1951.
Cast
Actor | Role |
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Richard Crane | Captain Cyrus Harding |
Marshall Reed | Jack Pencroft |
Karen Randle | Rulu of Mercury |
Ralph Hodges | Bert Brown |
Gene Roth | Pirate Captain Shard |
Hugh Prosser | Gideon Spillett |
Leonard Penn | Captain Nemo |
Terry Frost | Ayrton |
Rusty Wescoatt | Moley |
Bernard Hamilton | Neb |
William Fawcett | Mister Jackson |
George Robotham | Mercurian |
Sid Ross | Mercurian |
Zon Murray | Thug in park |
Roy Butler | Thug in park |
Frank Ellis | Pirate |
Frank O'Connor | Confederate soldier |
Tom Tyler | Union Dispatch rider |
Stanley Blystone | Confederate soldier |
Anthony Warde | Confederate soldier |
Pierre Watkin | Confederate officer |
Knox Manning | Narrator |
Notes & Trivia
- Mysterious Island is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne in 1875. It was originally published by Hetzel under the French title L'Île mystérieuse.
- The tagline for this film is "Out-of-this-world serial thrills... As Mercury space ships zoom into this world!"
- There are twelve main cast members credited in this film. There are twenty-two total cast members credited in this film.
- Director Spencer Gordon Bennet is credited as Spencer Bennet in this film.
- Director of photography Fayte M. Browne is credited as Fayte Browne in this film.
- Spencer Bennet is also known for directing other action film serials such as Atom Man vs. Superman, Blackhawk: Freedom's Champion and Superman.
- This story shares continuity with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, which also features the character of Captain Nemo. The events of this film are supposed to take place after 20,000 Leagues, even though the events of that story occurred in 1866, less than a year after the events of this story.
- The primary setting of this film is the fictional Lincoln Island in the South Pacific in the year 1865.
- This serial takes several liberties with the original Jules Verne tale, most notably the inclusion of alien Mercurians. There were no aliens in any of Verne's work.
- Lincoln Island is named by the Castaways after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
- This is the first film serial that Fayte Browne has worked on as a director of photogrpahy that wasn't a Western. He will also direct Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere, later this same year.
- How the Hell does a hot air balloon launched from Virginia get blown so off-course that it winds up in the Pacific Ocean?
Chapters
- Lost in Space
- Sinister Savages
- Savage Justice
- Wild Man at Large
- Trail of the Mystery Man
- The Pirates Attack
- Menace of the Mercurians
- Between Two Fires
- Shrine of the Silver Bird
- Fighting Fury
- Desperate Chances
- Mystery of the Mine
- Jungle Deadfall
- Men from Tomorrow
- The Last of the Mysterious Island
Recommendations
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1907)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
- Mysterious Island
- Mysterious Island (1961)
- Mysterious Island: The Series
See also
- Mysterious Island
- Mysterious Island episodes
- Mysterious Island characters
- Mysterious Island miscellaneous
External Links
- Mysterious Island at AMG
- Mysterious Island at IMDB
- Mysterious Island at Wikipedia
- Mysterious Island at Letterboxd.com
- Mysterious Island at Themoviedb.org
References
1865 | 19th century | Alien life forms | American Civil War | Crash landing | Dogs | Island | Laser weapons | Mercurians | Pacific Ocean | Submarine | Virginia