Thursday, March 18, 2010

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

MGM
Directed by James Hill
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

Robert Ryan is Captain Nemo, submarine captain and iron-clad ruler of his underwater city. He rescues a group of people from a sinking ship and forces them to live in the city. It's a Utopian society where machines make gold, drinks are free at the pub and nobody seems to go to work. Chuck Connors still doesn't like it there and steals a submarine to escape back to the real world of wars and greed. It's not golden age Jules Verne fantasy, but good enough to pass for Saturday afternoon matinee fare.



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