Mysterious Island is a 1961 film released by Morningside Productions. Based very loosely upon the novel The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, the film was produced by Charles H. Schneer and Ray Harryhausen. Directed by Cy Endfield, it was released through Columbia Pictures. The motion picture was filmed at Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, England as a showcase for Harryhausen's stop-motion animation effects. Like several of Harryhausen's classic productions, the musical score was composed by Bernard Herrmann. The film centers around Union soldiers escaping in a gas balloon from a Confederate... prison camp during the American Civil War. They end up crashing in the ocean, only to find themselves washed up on an unknown island where gigantic animals abound. It would later be revealed that the animals were the result of experiments by the presumed-dead Captain Nemo. He has been an unknown benefactor to the castaways as they struggled to survive on the island. The island's volcano threatens to erupt.
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| Release date: | December 20, 1961 |
| Directed by: | Cy Endfield |
| Runtime: | 96 Minutes |
| Producer: | Charles H. Schneer, Ray Harryhausen |
| Editor: | Frederick Wilson, Frederick Wilson |
| Music by: | Bernard Herrmann |
| Cinematography: | Wilkie Cooper |
| Screenplay by: | Jules Verne, John Prebble, Daniel B. Ullman, Crane Wilbur |
| Adapted from: | The Mysterious Island |
| Genre: | Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action |