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Mysterious Island (UK: 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.
Mysterious Island: Directed by Cy Endfield. With Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill. During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
Aug 7, 2020 · Mysterious Island (UK: 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.
Plot summary. During the American Civil War, five Northern prisoners of war escape during the Siege of Richmond, Virginia, by hijacking a hydrogen-filled observation balloon.
Escaped Civil War POWs end up on an island populated by giant animals.
Based on Jules Verne's classic novel, Mysterious Island is the story of five men escaping from a Confederate prison in an observation balloon. When they land the balloon, they find themselves on a South Seas island where they encounter pirates, a giant bird, a giant crab and even Captain Nemo.
Mysterious Island, American science-fiction adventure film, released in 1961, that is based loosely on Jules Verne’s book of the same name, a sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. In the film a group of Union prisoners escape, via hot-air balloon, from a Confederate stockade during the American.
