It has a variety of useful items, including rifles, nautical charts, and books such as Robinson Crusoe. Working together, the castaways find cover and protection in a cave. Afterwards, they find two unconscious English ladies, Lady Mary Fairchild and her niece Elena, who were shipwrecked there by the same storm. They manage to push it into a boiling geyser and have crab meat for dinner. While exploring the island, the men are attacked by a giant crab. This strange place turns out to have lush tropical jungles, harsh plains, and many volcanoes which frequently erupt. A storm arises, tearing open the airship and forcing the men to crash land on an unknown island. The balloon carries them westwards, over the Pacific Ocean.

While escaping, they kidnap Pencroft, a Confederate guard that knows how to pilot a nearby gas balloon. In 1865, during the American Civil War, Union soldiers Cyrus Harding, Herbert Brown and Neb Nugent, along with war correspondent Gideon Spillet are being held at the Libby Military Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Another version of the story was produced in 2005. Like several of Harryhausen's classic productions, the musical score was composed by Bernard Herrmann. Shot in Catalonia, Spain, and at Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, England, the film serves as a showcase for Ray Harryhausen's stop motion animation effects.

Loosely based upon the 1874 novel The Mysterious Island ( L'Île mystérieuse) by Jules Verne (which was the sequel to two other novels by Verne, 1867's In Search of the Castaways and 1870's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), the film was produced by Charles H.

Mysterious Island (UK: Jules Verne's Mysterious Island) is a 1961 science fiction adventure film about prisoners in the American Civil War who escape in a balloon and then find themselves stranded on a remote island populated by giant and tiny animals.

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