20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Special Edition)

Captain Nemo pilots the Nautilus in the 19th century, a sci-fi submarine which is perceived as a huge sea monster by warships of various nations which have encountered it... and then they are subsequently sunk.

Nemo's objective is to end all wars between nations and slavery as well, but he faces the ultimate dillemma to which such activities always lead: Do the means justify the ends? Nemo is ethically forced to take on reluctant passengers (including the great Peter Lorre!) who each employ different methods to attempt to get Nemo to stop sinking ships.

This is a superb color film of swashbuckling adventure. The locations, sets, scenes and cast are all as brilliant as is the cinematography. This is a wonderful older family film that anyone should enjoy.

Compare it to yet another fine adventure film, "Mysterious Island".

Mysterious Island (Widescreen)

Happy viewing!

i am now able to share with my 6yr. old grandson what i watched
when my children were small

Your kids might not like this movie. I saw it as a child and thought it was boring. My twin ten-year-old nephews felt the same way. But my husband (52) and I (47) watched it a month ago and loved it. We appreciated the acting and the story very much. The special effects were great. Try it on a big screen with multi grain snacks and a drink.

This was one of my most favorite movies since I first saw it when I was a kid.It stired my imagination in many ways.I'm sure many people of my generation will remember it fondly.I was most impressed by the speacial features dics which explained how the whole film came to be and the part Walt Disney and the film makers played in it.I'm so glad they never gave up on the task they chose to embark upon.
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20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA was the most expensive movie ever filmed at the time of its 1954 release. A great adaptation of Jules Verne's surprisingly prescient 19th Century novel, LEAGUES stars James Mason as the cultured, world-weary cynical genius Captain Nemo, designer and builder of the nuclear submarine "Nautilus." The cast is rounded out by Kirk Douglas as macho harpooner Ned Land, Paul Lukas as Professor Arronax, and Peter Lorre as Conseil, all of whom have been taken prisoner by the half-mad Nemo.

James Mason is perfect as Nemo. A romanticist and a scientist, Mason's Captain Nemo is brother to Walter Pidgeon's Doctor Morbius of FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956). Nemo, the custodian of arcane secret knowledge, has lost faith in humanity, and has isolated himself aboard his self-sustaining leviathan-like submarine. Half Cutty Sark and half Martian spacecraft (the set design is very reminiscent of George Pal's 1953 WAR OF THE WORLDS), the "Nautilus" boasts a library full of classics, a Grand Saloon full of art masterpieces, and a full-sized pipe organ upon which Nemo plays Debussy's "La Mer" all day long.

Without a hope for humanity, Nemo's own humanity is hopelessly stunted. He routinely attacks ships of all types, sinking them with abandon, and putting surviving sailors to death. Although he briefly considers sending Arronax back to the family of nations with the news of his many discoveries, his innate cynicism overtakes him.

Nemo and his ship are attacked by a giant squid in a classic film sequence. It is the unpolished, ill-regarded Ned Land, whom Nemo despises, who saves him. In the end, Land's efforts come to naught as Nemo takes his secrets to a watery grave.

In this amazingly memorable film, Disney literally spared no expense in providing the viewer with gorgeous and never-before-attempted underwater photography sequences, with a fascinating rendering of the "Nautilus," with an adapted storyline which still holds its own 53 years later, and with a rock solid cast.

This is GREAT family entertainment.