The Mysterious Island

Mar 17, 1973

1h 36m

★ 5.5

Overview

1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before crash landing their leader, the brilliant engineer Cyrus Smith falls to his apparent death in the raging waters, but later turns up completely unharmed and with no memory of how he was saved. His fellow castaways are: the famous journalist Gedeon Spilett, the salty sailor Bonaventure Pencroff, the orphaned boy Harbert Brown and the black servant of Smith, Nab. The dog Top also joined them in the escape.

Genres

Science Fiction

Adventure

Production Companies

Albina Productions

Cameroons Development

Citel Films

Copercines

Filmes Cinematografica

ORTF

The Mysterious Island Trailers

Cast

Captain Nemo

Omar Sharif

Neb

Ambroise Mbia

Bonaventure Pencroft

Jess Hahn

Gideon Spilett

Philippe Nicaud

Cyrus Smith

Gérard Tichy

Ayrton

Gabriele Tinti

Herbert Brown

Rafael Bardem Jr.

Bob Harvey

Mariano Vidal Molina

Finch

Rik Battaglia

Pirate

Luis Induni

Pirate

Víctor Israel

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