MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (Jules Verne's)
starring Michael Craig & Joan Greenwood
 
Sci-fi/Adventure
UPC: 043396078949
NR (Not Rated) 
 
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 and tiny animals. Loosely based upon the 1874 novel The Mysterious Island 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 Sea), the film was produced by Charles H. Schneer and directed by Cy Endfield.
 
After using a hot air balloon to escape from a Confederate prison camp, Capt. Harding (Michael Craig), Cpl. Neb Nugent (Dan Jackson) and Sgt. Pencroft (Percy Herbert) crash into the ocean and are later washed up on the beach of a strange island. The men soon run afoul of the local wildlife, which include giant crabs and prehistoric creatures. To make matters worse, the island's central volcano begins to erupt, threatening to take the whole island down with it.
 
Cast: Michael Craig as Captain Cyrus Harding; Joan Greenwood as Lady Mary Fairchild; Michael Callan as Herbert Brown; Gary Merrill as Gideon Spilitt; Herbert Lom as Captain Nemo; Beth Rogan as Elena Fairchild; Percy Herbert as Sergeant Pencroft; Dan Jackson as Corporal Neb Nugent.
 
A very good used DVD movie in a case with mild wear.