Blu-ray Release: Mysterious Island (1961)

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Laurence
– November 9, 2015Find Others: Blu-ray, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , , ,

Blu-ray Release Date: Dec. 8, 2015
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time

The 1961 fantasy adventure movie Mysterious Island is based on Jules Verne’s sequel to his own Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Mysterious Island Crab_optThe film is brought to the screen in spectacular fashion by director Cy Endfield (Zulu) and special effects master Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts), who weave the adventure-packed tale of a motley crew of Civil War escapees and shipwreck victims cast away on a remote Pacific isle. There they encounter the redoubtable mad genius, Captain Nemo (Herbert Lom, Night and The City), and the startling products of his scientific experiments: gigantic creatures of every description, all crafted with that special brand of Harryhausen magic.

Presented in a pristine new transfer, with Bernard Herrmann’s superlative score featured as an isolated track.

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.