Walt Disney and his cameramen and stars create stunning screen entertainment from one of the world's most famous science-fiction thrillers
The crystal-ball imagination of French novelist Jules Verne and the production genius of Walt Disney combine to make 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea a spellbinding show. In his novel, published in 1869, Verne anticipated an electrically propelled submarine, a self-contained diving suit and ingenious scientific uses of the sea's resources to benefit mankind. Disney makes full use of these ideas, goes Verne a step further. The maelstrom which destroyed Verne's submarine becomes on the screen the ominously familiar mushroom explosion. And inventor Captain Nemo is a still madder genius bent on vengeance on old enemies. The film, directed by Richard Fleischer, is pictorially fascinating and will enthrall youngsters and adults alike.
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