- Actors: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom
- Directors: Cy Endfield
- Writers: Crane Wilbur, Daniel B. Ullman, John Prebble, Jules Verne
- Producers: Charles H. Schneer
- Format: NTSC, Import
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Sony Pictures
- VHS Release Date: Jun 24 1994
- Run Time: 101 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6302736951
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good retro fun,
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This review is from: Mysterious Island (VHS Tape)
Somehow, everything about this movie screams "Saturday afternoon". It has an improbable plot, effects from a simpler era, and the good winning out over the morally ambiguous.The only fair way to judge this movie is in its own context, now more than 40 years old. At the time, Harryhausen's stop-action creatures were the height of special effects. The giant crab, bee, and other creatures could not have been done any other way. Rays from "electric gun" may have been scratched directly onto the film. Again, it looks unsophisticated to today's eye, but matches the rest of the movie very well. For its time, though, this movie has a few fairly modern features. The one black actor had about as much of a role as the others, even though Jim Crow was still alive and kicking. There was a skimpy-skirted female lead with a habitual need for being saved. The other woman, however, was one of the more competent members of the group. She was used to a life of ease, but quickly showed her competence at handling support functions for the team, and under primitive conditions. Maybe she did "women's work", but she did jobs that needed doing and she got past her aristo background to do them. About the only complaint we ever heard was that her gun jammed at a crucial moment. There's no high moral or deep art here. There is good fun. It's a little dated, but that is just part of its charm.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A CLASSIC ALL TIME MASTERPIECE, ON DVD!,
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This review is from: Mysterious Island (VHS Tape)
Yes in deed, the great classic as I watched as a kid. A group of people who find themselves stranded on an uncharted deserted island. Wigh gigantic animals, engaging story line. And yes this is out on DVD as I have just purchased it.
3.0 out of 5 stars
So-so fantasy.,
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This review is from: Mysterious Island (VHS Tape)
This is an interesting fantasy movie about five men dropped on a desert island during the civil war. It very loosely based on Jules Vernes masterpiece, very loosely. Lots of monsters and women which were not in the book. You might enjoy the movie, but if you want to know the real story, you have to read the book - that will be well worth your time. I wish that someone would produce a movie that really tells the whole story as Verne wrote it; I'd buy that in an instant.
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