The "Nautilus" in this film wasn't even close to Jules Verne's description and has a certain beauty taken from the graphic novel series. "Prince Dakkar" would return, also referred too as "Captain Nemo", portrayed by Naseeruddin Shah in 2003's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". His "Nautilus" in no way resembled either Jules Verne's, or Walt Disney's. In 1969 Robert Ryan portrayed "Captain Nemo" in "Captain Nemo and the Underwater City". Here "Nemo" has taken the "Nautilus" to its final resting place in a great undersea cavern. Unfortunately, the audience never gets to see the complete exterior of the submarine, because it has been damaged at the end of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and presumed lost. The following photos of Ray's "Nautilus" seem more suggestive of the Walt Disney version than Verne's actual description. On December 21, 1961, Herbert Lom was stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen's "Captain Nemo"in his version of "The Mysterious Island". The attraction was as "Disneyland" from August 1955 through August 1966. It contained many of the actual movie sets and models from the motion picture.This was my favorite thing to spend our ten cent, "A-Ticket", admission on. The above shot is from the original "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" walk-thru at the original "Disneyland Park" in Anaheim, California. Probably the most famous design comes from Walt Disney's 1954 "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" directed by Richard Fleischer and co-starring James Mason as "Captain Nemo". The feature starred Nikolai Komissarov as "Captain Nemo" and the following stills are of the Soviet Union's version of the "Nautilus". Moving to 1941, the Soviet Union made a version of "The Mysterious Island" with political overtones. The following are some inside views with the sea creatures. It became a hybrid, part silent, part sound, and with undersea segments shot in two-strip Technicolor.,Ībove one of "Count Dakkar's" submarines as seen in the picture and below a drawing of the submarine. The motion picture started out in 1926 as a silent film, but with the advent of sound. In 1929 Lionel Barrymore appeared as "Count Dakkar" in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Mysterious Island". The silent film was actually shot underwater and the following pictures are of the "Nautilus" and the closest to Verne's actual description. In 1916 "Universal Film Manufacturing Company (the future Universal Pictures)" released "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" with Allen Holubur as "Captain Nemo". My article "Captain Nemo Motion Picture Star" can be read at: The above illustration is from the 1870 novel based upon Verne's actual description,įor those interested in the on screen character of Jules Verne's submarine inventor from 1907 until 2003. The novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was published in 1870 and its sequel "The Mysterious Island" in 1874. One must start with Jules Verne's "Prince Dakkar" better known as "Captain Nemo" and the inventor of Verne's submarine. This is a look at some of the submarines that appeared in Science Fiction films and the imagination of their designers. This article is not about World War 2 submarines, or the modern submarine. Then it's those World War 2 movies with John Wayne, Cary Grant, Glenn Ford and Ronald Reagan. When we normally think of submarines in motion picture, if its not the "Nautilus" of Jules Verne and Walt Disney. The following link takes my reader to a French website with three images of the submarine from the motion picture: The character of "Professor Elihu Prudence", played by James Hayter, invents a submarine based upon Leonardo's design and it makes an appearance at the end of the Burt Lancaster 1952 movie "The Crimson Pirate". William Bourne designed a more workable craft in 1578 and what we call submarines were born, if not actually constructed.Ībove Da Vinci's design and below Bourne's. Italian painter and dreamer Leonardo Da Vinci designed the first submarine in 1515.
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