La isla misteriosa (1973)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

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)

Extraordinaries adventures, and sensational landscapes beautifully filmed in Canary Islands

This new rendition about Jules Verne novel is developed during the American Civil war(1861-1865), an Union POWs(Jess Hahn,Philippe Nicaud, Gerard Tichy and a boy, Rafael Bardem Jr) escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a lonely South Pacific island. They must to utilize their ingenious to survive the risks, such as a weird ray-guns, and to devise a way to return to home. They also find on another island, a shipwrecked man(Gabriele Tinti)who unites to the motley group, besides Captain Nemo(Omar Sharif)and his submarine. Meanwhile, a pirates band(Rick Battaglia,Mariano Vidal Molina, Victor Israel, among others) attack the island.

This is the following of ¨20000 leagues under the sea¨, containing fantastic adventures, suspense, shootouts and wonderful outdoors. The cinematographic version -two hours approximately-is plenty of flaws , however the overlong miniseries is more adequate. The film is marvellously set in Lanzarote, natural park of Timanfaya, Canary Islands, Alicante and Cameroon. Captain Nemo is middling played by Omar Sharif, he was very angry but he was hired for a cinema production when the picture turned into a TV mini-series. Average special effects with a cheesy sub made by scale model though interiors are well realized. The film packs a sensible, touching musical score by Gianni Ferrio, a usual musician of Spaghetti Western(Sledge, Desperados). Colorful cinematography by Enzo Sarafian though is necessary a rapid adjust but the copy is worn-out. The movie is professionally co-directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and Henry Colpi. Bardem is one of the best Spaniards directors with various excellent pictures( Main street, Vendetta, and Comedians.) Henry Colpi was a prestigious editor and occasionally director and here was assistant direction. Another versions about this known story are : The best version in 1961 directed by Cy Endfield with monsters by Ray Harryhausen, and with Herbert Lom as Nemo , and TV version 2005 by Russell Mulcahy with Patric Stewart as Nemo.