Captain Nemo and the Underwater City is a 1969 British film, featuring the character Captain Nemo and some of the settings of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was written by Pip and Jane Baker and stars Robert Ryan as Nemo.
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“Stay on the beach. The natives over there are cannibals. They eat liars with the same enthusiasm as they eat honest men.”
—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)
“Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.”
—Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter, and Lewis Milestone. Captain Ross (Dana Andrews)
“You were sent to get food, not treasure. You can’t eat pieces of eight.... You place an absurd value on the cheapest of human commodities.”
—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)
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—Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)