20,000 Leagues Under the Sea details
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Movie Details:
- Director: Richard Fleischer
- Produced By: Buena Vista, Walt Disney Productions
- Year: 1954
- Run Time: 135 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: G
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Science Fiction, Adventure
- Filmed In: Color
- Key Cast: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Carleton Young, Percy Helton, Ted Cooper, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Color Art Direction (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1954), Best Editing (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1954), Best Picture (National Board of Review 1954), Full Awards
This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio's costliest and most elaborate American-filmed effort to date. Kirk Douglas plays a trouble-shooting 19th century seaman, trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with scientist Paul Lukas and diver Peter Lorre, Douglas sets sail to investigate--and is promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo (James Mason), who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine. The film's special effects, including a giant squid, were impressive enough in 1954 to win an Academy Award. by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- craziness
- exploration
- high-seas
- investigator
- scientist
- shipwreck
- submarine
- survivor
- sea-monster
Themes:
- Heroic Mission
