20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Pros: The whole movie is fantastic: story, direction, acting, special effects, sound
Cons: Hollywood needs to make more films like this!

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The natives on that island are cannibals. They eat liars with the same enthusiasm as they eat honest men. Captain Nemo Jules Verne was one of the original science fiction authors and this film adaptation of one ...

Pros: Great set design, James Mason as Captain Nemo...
Cons: ... characters not true to the book, Nemo not mysterious enough...

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is the 1954 Disney adaptation of the classic Jules Verne novel. Starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas and Peter Lorre, it’s a much loved children’s movie but after having fairly recently read the ...

Pros: Acting, action, story, effects, and everything else.
Cons: None!

In 1868, ships are being sunk by a sea monster in the Pacific, and this is interfering with trade, research, and diplomatic missions. A warship is sent out to dispel the myth of the sea monster, or kill it, if there really is one. After months of ...

Pros: James Mason and the production design shine, even 50 years later.
Cons: There are moments of Disney cuteness, but that's to be expected.

Jules Verne's library of works have provided plenty of grist for the cinematic mill, dating back to a 1916 silent version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But by far the best known filmed version of a Verne novel is Walt Disney's 1954 attempt to film the ...

Pros: Powerful, provocative performance by Mason, good by Douglas; superior special effects
Cons: Other lead roles uninspired, but nothing serious

I have always wondered why the French cinema has been so reluctant to tackle the novels of one of the world's most popular French authors, 19th-century science-fiction writer Jules Verne. Rather than try their hand at such a potentially rich vein of...

Pros: Great premise, excellent characters, Nemo is a brilliant creation
Cons: Not enough songs

Walt Disney's 1954 live-action feature "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was a unique triumph for the Disney company. There is not--and there will probably never will be--another film quite like it.


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Pros: Great adventure, good acting the better adaptation ever made of a Jules Verne's novel.
Cons: a bit overacted tone sometimes

I watched '20.000 Leagues Under the Sea' when I was a boy of ten years old - more than thirty years ago - and the movie left me until now a permanent impression of great adventure, marvelous special effects and great performances all around, especially ...