Walt Disney’s elaborate screen version of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”’ is based on the famous Jules Verne classic of the submarine. Filmed in technicolor Cinema-Scope, the picture has a top-flight cast of players led by James Mason, Kirk Douglas, and Paul Lukas. The special effects and speclacular photography of the ocean depths are features of the strange adventure.
[img]CAPTAIN NEMO (James Mason), right, entertains his captives aboard The Nautilus. They are Professor Arronax, an authority on undersea life (Paul Lukas) (left), Conseil (Peter Lorre). his assistant, and the harpooner Ned Land (Kirk Douglas). In the story these. three are aboard a Government ship sent to track down a mysterious sea creature. It turns out to be a submarine.[/img]
[img]SUBMARINE SINKS (above). In this scene from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Captain Nemo (James Mason) orders a straight-down course when the Nautilus is attacked by warships. Ned Land (Kirk Dougtas) manages to escape and saves his two friends.[/img]
[img]HIGH SPOT of Disney's underwater thriller ie the scene in which villainous Captain Nemo (Mason) is caught in the tentacles of a giant squid which attacks the Nautilus. He is rescued by Ned Land (Dougias), who hurls a spear at the creature.[/img]
