Mysterious Island (1961)
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Directors
Cy Endfield
Cast
Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom
The story
During the American Civil War, Union soldiers Cyrus Harding, Herbert Brown, and Neb Nugent, along with war correspondent Gideon Spillet, escape Libby Military Prison in Richmond, Virginia. They abscond with a gas balloon and a Rebel guard, Pencroft, who can pilot it. The balloon carries them west over the Pacific Ocean, where a storm forces them to crash land on an unknown island of tropical jungles, harsh plains, and active volcanoes.
Genres
Adventure, Sci-Fi
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