DVD : 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Special Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936192476
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Live, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 3387
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 1954
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Climb aboard the Nautilus ... and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Captain Nemo, brilliantly portrayed by James Mason. Wavering between genius and madness, Nemo has launched a deadly crusade across the seven seas. But can the captive crew expose his evil plan before he destroys the world? Disney's brilliant Academy Award(R)-winning (1955, Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects) adaptation of Jules Verne's gripping tale makes 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA a truly mesmerizing masterpiece!
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The swashbuckler genre bumped into science fiction in 1954 for one of Hollywood's great entertainments. The Jules Verne story of adventure under the sea was Walt Disney's magnificent debut into live-action films. A professor (Paul Lukas) seeks the truth about a legendary sea monster in the years just after the Civil War. When his ship is sunk, he, his aide (Peter Lorre), and a harpoon master (Kirk Douglas) survive to discover that the monster is actually a metal submarine run by Captain Nemo (James Mason). Along with the rollicking adventure, it's fun to see the future technology that Verne dreamed up in his novel, including diving equipment and sea farming. The film's physical prowess is anchored by the Nautilus, an impressive full-scale gothic submarine complete with red carpet and pipe organ. In the era of big sets, 20,000 Leagues set a precedent for films shot on the water and deservedly won Oscars for art direction and special effects. Lost in the inventiveness of the film and great set pieces including a giant squid attack are two great performances. Mason is the perfect Nemo, taut and private, clothed in dark fabric that counters the Technicolor dreamboat that is the beaming red-and-white-stripe-shirted Kirk Douglas as the heroic Ned Land. The film works as peerless family adventure nearly half a century later. --Doug Thomas
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Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is a robust adventure movie, filled to the brim with visuals ranging from awe-inspiring to bizarre, wall-to-wall excitement, and a constant air of intrigue and wonderment. Even in the hands of the Walt Disney Studios, there was plenty of room for the production to falter. Jules Verne's classic novel features deep characterizations and drips with mystery, and the pressure to soften the story in order to appeal to younger audiences was surely intense. Thankfully, Walt Disney and director Richard Fleischer did not give in to temptation. Like the greatest films of the science-fiction genre, including George Lucas's "Star Wars" trilogy, it tells a lively and exciting tale of mystical technology and worlds unknown where richly drawn and colorfully visualized characters happen upon the likes of a steel leviathan that plunges to unimaginable fathoms, man-eating sharks, a tribe of blood-thirsty cannibals, and a monstrous giant-squid
Three very different characters find themselves at the center of the action. Paul Lukas is Professor Pierre Aronnax, a famous French marine biologist, who along with his apprentice, Conseil (Peter Lorre), depart for Saigon on a United States warship from San Francisco in hopes of coming across a rumored sea monster that has struck fear in the hearts of every sailor on the Pacific Ocean. Also on the ship is cocky harpooner Ned Land, played with great zeal by Kirk Douglas, who is convinced that no such creature ... Read More
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A classic tale, not as good as i remember it to be as a child but still good clean entertainment for the the whole family, better than commercial TV has to offer.
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Disney's presentation of Jules Verne's 20,000 leagues under the sea is solid family entertainment. Shipping routes are under attack by a mysterious monster. The navy is sent out to find if the monster exists and their ship is blown up by the mysterious monster. Ned Land (Kirk Douglas), Prof. Pierre Arronax (Paul Lukas) and Conseil (Peter Lorre) survive only to find themselves taken prisoners by the mad but genius Captain Nemo (James Mason).
While there is lots of adventure, including a battle with a Kraken, the story is about madness, revenge, science, slavery, exploration and the uncharted depths of the ocean. Sea lovers will enjoy every aquatic moment of it but Captain Nemo is one of the saddest and most bitter characters ever to grace the screens. It has an ominous depressing tone for a lot of it but the Nautilus ship set design is a work of art and much of the cinematography and underwater scenes are cutting edge for their time. If you are in for this one then you will probably want to see Mason in Verne's Journey to the centre of the earth also.
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In this horrible 21st century full of mankind's awful things and with no more talent for creativity and quality,This movie is a treasure and legacy about what once was golden times for Disney and movies.
Not anymore.Walt Disney Corporation has to be ashame of themselves now.
This is a timeless movie.
We will never make a movie like this.
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Disney's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea was one of the most influential film experiences of my youth. I definitely rate it as a five star film with good special effects, which though dated, were very good for the time. The best of the special effects scenes was the giant squid and I have read that this scene required many retakes and changes in mechanical approach to satisfy Disney who would not agree that it was done until it looked credible. In fact, improving the giant squid scene nearly ended the film and financially broke the studio. Fortunately, additional funding of well over a million dollars was obtained from bankers after their inspection of film efforts to date, with favorable results.
The design of the submarine Nautilus (by John Meehan) is regarded as something which was almost as beautiful as it was functional. Hundreds of models of this design by Disney studios continue to be made which are commercially available in almost all scales. Some absolutely amazing very large scale working submersible models of this original design may be found on the web using Google.
Based on the excellent documentary the origin of Disney's 20,000 Leagues was the work of a single visionary staff member who, unauthorized, story boarded his grand vision while Disney was away from the office. Fortunately, Disney immediately recognized that this film had to be made and his studio would be the one to make it.
I was only eight when I remember my mother taking ... Read More
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starring: James Mason, Kirk Douglas, Peter Ellenshaw, Elmo Williams, Vincent Di Fate
directed by: Charles A. Nichols, Richard Fleischer
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Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936192476
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Live, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 3387
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 1954
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