Academy Awards, USA 1975
| Nominated Oscar | Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Peter Ellenshaw John B. Mansbridge Walter H. Tyler Al Roelofs Hal Gausman |
Buena Vista Distribution
Directed by Robert Stevenson
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Walt Disney)
Archaeology professor David Hartman gets railroaded into helping a wealthy British aristocrat find his son who is lost in the Arctic. He hires a French airship and its captain to get them there, picking up a native Eskimo along the way who was the last person to see his son alive. They travel to a cloud-enshrouded island where they find a lost Viking civilization living in isolation. However, they are unwelcome and carted off in ropes to a majestic cavern where the religious leaders sentence them to death. A local girl in love with the son saves them, and the group tries to escape by foot across a desolate landscape of fire and ice. Immensely entertaining adventure in the Jules Verne vein, allows one to overlook the shortcomings of the dated special effects and stereotyped characters.
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