Mysterious Island

Mysterious Island

252 mins | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy | Sept. 13, 1951

It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.

Mysterious Island

252 mins | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy | Sept. 13, 1951

Mysterious Island
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title Mysterious Island
Directors R. M. Andrews, Spencer Gordon Bennet
Writers Lewis Clay, Royal K. Cole, George H. Plympton, Jules Verne

Cast

Richard Crane

as Capt. Cyrus Harding

Marshall Reed

as Jack Pencroft

Karen Randle

as Rulu of Mercury

Ralph Hodges

as Herbert 'Bert' Brown

Gene Roth

as Pirate Capt. Shard

Hugh Prosser

as Gideon Spillet

Leonard Penn

as Capt. Nemo

Terry Frost

as Ayrton - The Wild Man

Rusty Wescoatt

as Moley - Shard Henchman

William Fawcett

as Mr. Jackson

George Robotham

as Mercurian

Stanley Blystone

as Confederate Officer

Roy Butler

as Thug in Park

Frank Ellis

as Pirate

Knox Manning

as Narrator (voice)

Zon Murray

as Thug in Park

Frank O'Connor

as Confederate Officer

Sid Ross

as Mercurian

Tom Tyler

as Union Dispatch Rider

Anthony Warde

as Confederate Officer

Pierre Watkin

as Confederate Officer