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Actors: James Mason, Kirk Douglas, Peter Ellenshaw, Elmo Williams, Vincent Di Fate Director: Charles A. Nichols Rating: Features: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Live, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 2 Running Time: 127 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1 Release Date: May 20, 2003 Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 1954 Studio: Walt Disney Video
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Climb aboard the Nautilus ... and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Captain Nemo, brilliantly portrayed by James Mason. Wavering between genius and madness, Nemo has launched a deadly crusade across the seven seas. But can the captive crew expose his evil plan before he destroys the world? Disney's brilliant Academy AwardR-winning 1955, Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects adaptation of Jules Verne's gripping tale makes 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA a truly mesmerizing masterpiece!
The swashbuckler genre bumped into science fiction in 1954 for one of Hollywood's great entertainments. The Jules Verne story of adventure under the sea was Walt Disney's magnificent debut into live-action films. A professor Paul Lukas seeks the truth about a legendary sea monster in the years just after the Civil War. When his ship is sunk, he, his aide Peter Lorre, and a harpoon master Kirk Douglas survive to discover that the monster is actually a metal submarine run by Captain Nemo James Mason. Along with the rollicking adventure, it's fun to see the future technology that Verne dreamed up in his novel, including diving equipment and sea farming. The film's physical prowess is anchored by the Nautilus, an impressive full-scale gothic submarine complete with red carpet and pipe organ. In the era of big sets, 20,000 Leagues set a precedent for films shot on the water and deservedly won Oscars for art direction and special effects. Lost in the inventiveness of the film and great set pieces including a giant squid attack are two great performances. Mason is the perfect Nemo, taut and private, clothed in dark fabric that counters the Technicolor dreamboat that is the beaming red-and-white-stripe-shirted Kirk Douglas as the heroic Ned Land. The film works as peerless family adventure nearly half a century later. --Doug Thomas
