From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 3/30/25 8:02 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
      
   > THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1929) is the first film version of the   
   > Jules Verne novel.  Well, sort of--Verne's novel did not have   
   > dragons or duck people.  THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND is a bizarre   
   > adaptation of the Jules Verne.   No film adaptation is much like   
   > the book, which would resemble ROBINSON  CRUSOE with just a touch   
   > of science fiction.  In this version Lionel  Barrymore plays Count   
   > Andre Dakkar (alias Captain Nemo) on an island where  he studies   
   > deep seas.  On the ocean floor he finds a race of what TCM  calls   
   > "fish men," but I would say they look more like they are wearing   
   > duck suits.  It has early two-strip Technicolor and sound   
   > sequences, but  it is really mostly a pre-sound film.  MGM was   
   > slowly moving to sound.   The film may be more interesting as an   
   > artifact than as a rip-snorting  science fiction film.   
      
   The 1916 _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_ incorporates parts of   
   _Mysterious Island_, including Nemo's back story, though it takes major   
   liberties with both novels.   
      
      
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