La isla misteriosa (1973)

Directors:

Juan Antonio Bardem
Henri Colpi

Writers:

Juan Antonio Bardem (writer)
Henri Colpi (writer)

Release Date:

June 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

Captain Nemo | Foreign Language Adaptation | Island | 1860s | Based On Novel

Cast

Omar Sharif	...	Captain Nemo
Ambroise Bia	...	Neb
Jess Hahn	...	Bonaventure Pencroft
Philippe Nicaud	...	Gideon Spilett
Gérard Tichy	...	Cyrus Smith
Gabriele Tinti	...	Ayrton
Rafael Bardem Jr.	...	Herbert Brown
Mariano Vidal Molina	...	Bob Harvey (as Vidal Molina)
Rik Battaglia	...	Finch
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alfonso de la Vega
Miguel Del Castillo
Luis Induni	...	Pirate
Víctor Israel	...	Pirate
José Jaspe
Jean Lefebvre
Fernando Villena	...	The Colonel

Also Known As:

Captain Nemo (Spain) (DVD box title)
Jules Verne's Mysterious Island of Captain Nemo
Jules Verne's Mysterious Island of Dr. Nemo
L'île mystérieuse (France)
L'isola misteriosa e il capitano Nemo (Italy)
The Mysterious Island (USA)
The Mysterious Island of Captain Nemo

Runtime:

96 min | Spain:120 min

Country:

Spain | France | Italy | Cameroon

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-12 | USA:PG | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

Company:

Albina Productions S.a.r.l.

Trivia:

German Import DVD has a Super-8 Version (German language only), as a special feature on the disc.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Back to the Future Part III (1990)

Not quite lost

Happily the series is not lost after all. Theatrical versions were released to DVD in France and Italy some time ago.

Now, finally, a Spanish movie magazine has released the complete six-episodes series to limited edition DVD! Bad news for some of us is that only a Spanish language track is included, with no subtitles. (If that is unacceptable to you, well, you'll have track down one of the old VHS releases then - and that'd be of the theatrical version only. No complete release in English is known to exist.) But at least it's available, so get it while you can. I've heard that the initial batch sold out almost instantly, to the complete surprise of the magazine staff.

Anyway, let's hope someone will release an English language version. If necessary, do a brand new dub! (Omar Sharif is still around, after all.)

P.S. Watching the complete series again I marvel at how faithful to Jules Verne the producers were. Well, they did crank up the scifi elements a bit, but then again Verne is considered the grandfather of Science Fiction, isn't he?