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Mysterious Island (1961 film)

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Mysterious Island (UK: Jules Verne's Mysterious Island) is a 1961 science fiction adventure film about Civil War prisoners who escape in a balloon and then find themselves stranded on a remote island populated by giant mutated animals. [1]

77 relations: Adventure film, American Civil War, Bee, Beehive, Bernard Herrmann, Beth Rogan, Buried treasure, Captain Nemo, Castell-Platja d'Aro, Catalonia, Cave, Cephalopod, Charles H. Schneer, Columbia Pictures, Confederate States of America, Crab, Crab meat, Crane Wilbur, Cy Endfield, Cyrus Smith, Dan Jackson, Daniel B. Ullman, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, England, First Men in the Moon (1964 film), Flightless bird, Francoist Spain, Frederick Wilson (film editor), Gary Merrill, Geyser, Herbert Lom, Honey, In Search of the Castaways, Island, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Joan Greenwood, John Prebble, Jules Verne, Jungle, LaserDisc, List of stop motion films, London Symphony Orchestra, Mexico, Michael Callan, Michael Craig (actor), Mysterious Island (2005 film), Nautilus (Verne), Observation balloon, Ornithomimus, Percy Herbert (actor), ..., Phorusrhacos, Piracy, Plain, Prehistory, Ray Harryhausen, Robinson Crusoe, Science fiction, Shell (structure), Shepperton, Shepperton Studios, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, Spain, Stop motion, Television, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The Mysterious Island, The New York Times, The Valley of Gwangi, Tom Ayrton, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Union (American Civil War), Volcano, Whirlpool, Wild goat, Wilkie Cooper, 1865 Atlantic hurricane season, 20 Million Miles to Earth. Expand index (27 more) »

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film that typically use their action scenes to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Bee

Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the European honey bee, for producing honey and beeswax.

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Beehive

A beehive is an enclosed structure man-made in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young.

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Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures.

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Beth Rogan

Beth Rogan, born Jenifer Puckle, (19 July 1931 – 25 November 2015) was a British film actress and Rank Films starlet of the 1950s and 60s.

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Buried treasure

A buried treasure is an important part of the popular beliefs surrounding pirates and Old West outlaws.

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Captain Nemo

Captain Nemo—also known as Prince Dakkar—is a fictional character created by the French science fiction author Jules Verne (1828–1905).

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Castell-Platja d'Aro

Castell-Platja d'Aro is a municipality in the middle of the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya, Catalonha, Cataluña) is an autonomous community in Spain on the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Cave

A cave is a hollow place in the ground, specifically a natural space large enough for a human to enter.

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Cephalopod

A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδα, kephalópoda; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus or nautilus.

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Charles H. Schneer

Charles H. Schneer (May 5, 1920 – January 21, 2009) was a film producer most widely known for working with Ray Harryhausen, known for his work in stop motion model animation.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) (translit.

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Crab meat

Crab meat or crabmeat is the meat found within a crab.

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Crane Wilbur

Crane Wilbur (November 17, 1886 – October 18, 1973) was an American writer, actor and director for stage, radio and screen.

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Cy Endfield

Cyril Raker Endfield (November 10, 1914 – April 16, 1995) was an American screenwriter, film director, theatre director, author, magician and inventor, based in Britain from 1953.

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Cyrus Smith

Cyrus Smith (named Cyrus Harding in some English translations) is one of the protagonists of Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island.

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Dan Jackson

Daniel Dean Jackson Baker (born October 24, 1993) is a Costa Rican-American soccer player who is currently a Free Agent.

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Daniel B. Ullman

Daniel B. Ullman (1918–1979) was an American screenwriter.

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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Earth vs.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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First Men in the Moon (1964 film)

First Men in the Moon is a 1964 British Technicolor science fiction film, produced by Charles H. Schneer, directed by Nathan Juran, that stars Edward Judd, Martha Hyer and Lionel Jeffries.

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Flightless bird

Flightless birds are birds that through evolution lost the ability to fly.

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Francoist Spain

Francoist Spain (España franquista) or the Franco regime (Régimen de Franco), formally known as the Spanish State (Estado Español), is the period of Spanish history between 1939, when Francisco Franco took control of Spain after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War establishing a dictatorship, and 1975, when Franco died and Prince Juan Carlos was crowned King of Spain.

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Frederick Wilson (film editor)

Frederick Wilson (13 August 1912, London, UK – 1994, Cambridge) was a British film editor and director.

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Gary Merrill

Gary Fred Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990) was an American film and television character actor whose credits included more than fifty feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances.

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Geyser

A geyser is a spring characterized by intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam.

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Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom (11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012) was a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939.

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Honey

Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance produced by bees and some related insects.

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In Search of the Castaways

In Search of the Castaways (Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, lit. The Children of Captain Grant) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–1868.

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Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.

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It Came from Beneath the Sea

It Came from Beneath the Sea is a 1955 American black-and-white science fiction giant monster film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Sam Katzman and Charles Schneer, directed by Robert Gordon, that stars Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, and Donald Curtis.

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Joan Greenwood

Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 28 February 1987) was an English actress.

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John Prebble

John Edward Curtis Prebble, FRSL, OBE,(23 June 1915 – 30 January 2001) was an English journalist, novelist, documentarian and popular historian.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Jungle

A jungle is land covered with dense vegetation dominated by trees.

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LaserDisc

LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in the United States in 1978.

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List of stop motion films

This is a list of films that showcase stop motion animation, and is divided into three sections: Animated features, Live action features, and Animated shorts.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Michael Callan

Michael Callan (born November 22, 1935) is an American actor best known for originating the role of Riff in West Side Story on Broadway, and for his film roles for Columbia Pictures, notably Gidget Goes Hawaiian, The Interns and Cat Ballou.

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Michael Craig (actor)

Michael Francis Gregson (born 27 January 1928), known professionally as Michael Craig, is a British actor and scriptwriter, known for his work in theatre, film and television both in the United Kingdom and Australia.

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Mysterious Island (2005 film)

Mysterious Island (also called Jules Verne's Mysterious Island) is a 2005 television film made for Hallmark Channel that is based on Jules Verne's novel of the same name (L'Île mystérieuse).

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Nautilus (Verne)

Nautilus is the fictional submarine captained by Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874).

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Observation balloon

An observation balloon is a type of balloon that is employed as an aerial platform for intelligence gathering and artillery spotting.

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Ornithomimus

Ornithomimus ("bird mimic") is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America.

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Percy Herbert (actor)

Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 – 6 December 1992) was an English actor.

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Phorusrhacos

Phorusrhacos is an extinct genus of giant flightless terror birds that lived in Miocene Patagonia.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.

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Plain

In geography, a plain is a flat, sweeping landmass that generally does not change much in elevation.

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Prehistory

Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.

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Ray Harryhausen

Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British artist, designer, visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation".

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Shell (structure)

A shell is a type of structural element which is characterized by its geometry, being a three-dimensional solid whose thickness is very small when compared with other dimensions, and in structural terms, by the stress resultants calculated in the middle plane displaying components which are both coplanar and normal to the surface.

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Shepperton

Shepperton is a suburban village in the borough of Spelthorne, in the county of Surrey in England, southwest of Charing Cross, London, bounded by the Thames to the south and much of the east and which is in the northwest bisected by the M3 motorway.

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Shepperton Studios

Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England with a history dating back to 1931.

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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger is a 1977 fantasy film directed by Sam Wanamaker and featuring stop motion effects by Ray Harryhausen.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Stop motion

Stop motion is an animated-film making technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they appear to exhibit independent motion when the series of frames is played back as a fast sequence.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a 1973 fantasy film directed by Gordon Hessler and featuring stop motion effects by Ray Harryhausen.

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The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island (L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Valley of Gwangi

The Valley of Gwangi is a 1969 American western/fantasy film directed by Jim O'Connolly and written by William Bast.

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Tom Ayrton

Tom Ayrton is a fictional character who appears in two novels by French author Jules Verne.

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A Tour of the Underwater World") is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870.

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Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Whirlpool

A whirlpool is a body of swirling water produced by the meeting of opposing currents.

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Wild goat

The wild goat (Capra aegagrus) is a widespread species of goat, with a distribution ranging from Europe and Asia Minor to Central Asia and the Middle East.

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Wilkie Cooper

Wilkie Cooper BSC (19 October 1911 in London, England – 15 December 2001 in England) was a British cinematographer.

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1865 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1865 Atlantic hurricane season included two landfalling hurricanes, with one that caused over 325 deaths.

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20 Million Miles to Earth

20 Million Miles to Earth (a.k.a. The Beast from Space) is a 1957 American black-and-white science fiction giant monster film, produced by Charles H. Schneer's Morningside Productions for Columbia Pictures, directed by Nathan H. Juran, that stars William Hopper, Joan Taylor, and Frank Puglia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Island_(1961_film)

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