The Mysterious Island (1929)
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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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06.29.09
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 On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.
Title: Mysterious Island, The
Release Date: October 05, 1929
Runtime: 95 mins
Genre: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Color
Sound: Mono, Silent
IMDB Rating: 6.1
Brimstone Pit Rating: 7.1 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With M
MPAA Rating: Passed
Director(s):
Lucien Hubbard
Benjamin Christensen
Maurice Tourneur
Cast:
Lionel Barrymore ...Count Andre Dakkar
Jacqueline Gadsden ...Countess Sonia Dakkar (as Jane Daly)
Lloyd Hughes ...Nikolai Roget
Montagu Love ...Baron Hubert Falon
Harry Gribbon ...Mikhail
Snitz Edwards ...Anton
Gibson Gowland ...Dmitry
Dolores Brinkman ...Teresa
Karl Dane ...
Robert Dudley ...Workman
Angelo Rossitto ...Underwater Creature
Carl 'Major' Roup ...Underwater Creature
Pauline Starke ...
Harry Tenbrook ...Workman
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
J. Ernest Williamson
Writer(s):
Jules Verne
Lucien Hubbard
Composer(s):
Martin Broones
Arthur Lange
William Axt
Paul Lamkoff
Movie Trivia:
- No color prints survive. Only one reel exists tinted and with Technicolor sequences; it is held at the UCLA Film Archive.
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Footage shot by Maurice Tourneur and Benjamin Christensen in 1927 was incorporated into the movie.
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According to an article in the original "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazines, production was actually started in 1926. There were various problems, including weather and the advent of talkies, which slowed/halted production several times before the film was finally completed and released three years later. The article included stills showing the original 1926 undersea denizens and the redesigned version which actually appeared in the film.
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Keywords:
Island, Submarine, Scientist, Dragon, Underwater ...[more]
Keywords All:
Torpedo, Octopus, Explosion, Volcano, Torture, Oceanography, Nobility, Creature, Fictitious Kingdom, Burial At Sea, Bomb, Lost Race, Part Talkie, Revolution, Escape, Betrayal, Male Female Relationship, Giant Monster, Gunfire, Based On Novel
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Rating: 7.1 out of 10.0 - 69 votes cast total
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