The Mysterious Island - Film and Television Adaptations

Film and Television Adaptations

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 film): This classic American silent feature combines 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island into a single narrative, shifting back and forth between the Nautilus and the island.
• The Mysterious Island (1929 film): loosely based on the back-story given for Captain Nemo in the novel. It is an American all-color part-talking feature (survives only in black & white form) with talking sequences, sound effects and synchronized music. Filmed as a silent but a talking sequence was added to the beginning and brief talking sequences were integrated into the film. Directed by Lucien Hubbard with Benjamin Christensen and Maurice Tourneur.
• Mysterious Island (1941 film): a USSR production, directed by Eduard Pentslin.
• Mysterious Island (1951 film): directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet.
• Mysterious Island (1961 film): directed by Cy Endfield, also known as Jules Verne's Mysterious Island, featuring special effects from Ray Harryhausen and Herbert Lom as Nemo and a score by Bernard Hermann.
• La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo (L'Île mystérieuse) (1973): directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and Henri Colpi: a TV miniseries featuring Omar Sharif as Captain Nemo.
• Mysterious Island: a Canadian television series that ran for one season in 1995.
• Mysterious Island (2005): a TV movie featuring Patrick Stewart as Captain Nemo which is only loosely based on the novel. Nominated for a Saturn award for best TV presentation.
• Journey 2: The Mysterious Island: a 2012 film loosely based on the novel, directed by Brad Peyton, done as a sequel to an earlier adaptation of Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth with The Rock taking over the lead role from Brendan Fraser.
• Jules Verne's Mysterious Island - A 2012 cinematic adaptation loosely based on the novel made for the Syfy Channel.