Mysterious Island
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
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Adaptation du roman de Jules Verne, L'île mystérieuse. Les prisonniers de l'Union utilisent un ballon pour s'échapper d'un camp de prisonniers sudiste vers la fin de la guerre de Sécession et se retrouvent abandonnés sur une mystérieuse île volcanique avec des habitants très inhabituels.Film américain en noir et blanc réalisé par Spencer Gordon Bennet en 1951.
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- Director
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Starring
- Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle, Ralph Hodges, Gene Roth, Hugh Prosser, Leonard Penn, Terry Frost
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