Monday, June 18, 2012

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

Universal Film Mfg.
Directed by Stuart Paton
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Image Entertainment)

Captain Nemo, with his white beard and pirate's costume making him look kind of like Santa Claus, pilots his submarine, the Nautilus, around the ocean attacking ships. The US government sends a warship after him, but they are captured and taken prisoner aboard the submarine. Meanwhile, a hot air balloon crash lands on a nearby tropical island. The survivors find a wild woman living there, sort of a female Tarzan. One of them takes a liking to her and dresses her in men's clothes. Anyway, the two plot lines eventually meet, though there is quite a bit of time wasted gazing through Nemo's "magic window". An epilogue explains it all, but it seems like it belongs to a different movie altogether.

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