Two women also are shipwrecked as well Beth Rogan and her aunt Joan Greenwood. Hence he pioneers organic food and that giant wildlife is part of the experiment. Nemo has reassessed his life and now thinks that instead of blowing up the ships of war from every nation, he should work toward providing abundance for man. The man responsible for all this is Captain Nemo late of the Nautilus which it turns out was not sunk as written by Verne in 20000 Leagues Under The Sea, but rather limped into its home base by Herbert Lom in a measured and calculated performance. And what a place with all kinds of giant creatures, crabs, bees, and even a giant chicken all brought to life by Ray Harryhausen with some of his best work. In what is described as the greatest storm in American history this balloon is blown WAAAAAAAAAAAAY off course and they land on an island they later learn is 1000 miles from New Zealand. There's also one Confederate stowaway as well. Mysterious Island with the help of that other creative genius Ray Harryhausen concerns some Union soldiers who escape from a Confederate prison in a Confederate observation balloon. If Verne had been born later and allowed full credit control in writing and producing films, what films they would have been. The plots and the characters were born for the screen. Some better than others, some inferior ones, but not a bad film. I don't believe that you can make a bad film of a Jules Verne story.
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