Mysterious Island is a 1951 American 15-chapter movie serial from Columbia Pictures, the studio's 46th, that stars Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle, and Ralph Hodges. It is an adaptation of Jules Verne's 1874 novel, The Mysterious Island. As in the original story, which was Verne's follow-up to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, this serial is set in 1865. However, Columbia's screenwriters added alien Mercurians as an additional set of villains. The serial has been labeled a space opera version of Verne's novel.
Mysterious Island (1951)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Genres - Action-Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction |
Release Date - Sep 13, 1951 |
Run Time - 252 min. |
Countries - United States of America |
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American Civil War, Confederate, Film Based On A Novel, Island, Pirate, Union, Union Army, Virginia
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Based On: The Mysterious Island
Subject: Civil War, sea piracy
Subject: Civil War, sea piracy
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Alternate Titles
A Ilha Misteriosa
BR, PT
Esrarengiz Ada
TR
La isla misteriosa
VE
Mysterious Island
AU, GB, US
Rejtelmes sziget
HU
Salaperäinen saari
FI
Salaperäinen saari, I osa
FI
Salaperäinen saari, II osa
FI
Tajanstveno ostrvo
RS