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- Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece.
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The 2019 Netflix television series The I-Land is inspired by Vernes' Mysterious Island, and a paperback copy of Vernes' book is featured in the first episode. There is also some significance of an adaptation of Captain Nemo and the Mysterious Island in the first arc of the sixth season of Once Upon a Time.
- Jules Verne
- 1875
Sep 27, 2023 · The Mysterious Island is set on an imaginary island in the Pacific Ocean. However, Jules Verne drew inspiration from real-world locations, particularly the volcanic island of Krakatoa in Indonesia, which had a massive eruption in 1883. The castaways faced numerous challenges on the island.
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.
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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 Civil War and end up on a mysterious and remote uncharted island. Two stranded women join the prisoners as they battle pirates, escape from a volcano, and fight assorted giant animals and prehistoric monsters. The group eventually meets Captain Nemo (played by Herbert Lom) and discovers that the oversized creatures are part of his ill-fated plan to end starvation around the world.
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•Studio: Columbia Pictures
•Director: Cy Endfield
•Producer: Charles H. Schneer
•Writers: John Prebble, Daniel Ullman, and Crane Wilbur
•Music: Bernard Herrmann
•Running time: 101 minutes
•Michael Craig (Capt. Cyrus Harding)
•Joan Greenwood (Mary)
•Michael Callan (Herbert Brown)
•Gary Merrill (Gideon Spilett)
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The Mysterious Island, adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in French in three volumes as L’Île mystérieuse in 1874 and included in his popular science-fiction series Voyages extraordinaires (1863–1910). The Mysterious Island follows the adventures of a group of castaways who use their.
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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk—a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent nearly five years alone on an island in the South Pacific Ocean—the novel describes the...
First published in 1875, The Mysterious Island is one of Jules Verne’s most popular and enduring works. Set during the years of the American Civil War, it tells the tale of a group of castaways who end up on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, surviving thanks to their ingenuity, skill, determination, and the intermittent help of a ...
