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Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Genre | ACTION, Action/Adventure, LIVE |
Format | Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Dolby, Widescreen, Live, Special Edition, Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned See more |
Contributor | Walt Disney, Charles A. Nichols, Peter Lorre, Richard Fleischer, Joshua Meador, James Curtis Havens, Elmo Williams, Emile Kuri, Paul Lukas, Bob Macke, Portland Mason, Al Hansen, Fred Zendar, Kirk Douglas, Chris Mueller, Bob Burns (III), Roy Edward Disney, Bob Broughton, Vincent Di Fate, James Mason, Peter Ellenshaw, John A. Kuri See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 2 hours and 7 minutes |
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For the first time ever, you can enjoy this timeless classic in a Special Edition DVD. Fully restored to look and sound as it was originally intended, it also includes hours of exclusive bonus materials your family will enjoy again and again. Climb aboard the Nautilus...and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Captain Nemo, brilliantly portrayed by James Mason. Wavering between genius and madness, Nemo has launched a deadly crusade across the seven seas. But can the captive crew expose his evil plan before he destroys the world? Featuring Norman Gimbel and Al Hoffman's memorable song "A Whale of a Tale," Disney's Academy Award(R)-winning (Special Effects and Color Art Direction, 1954) adaptation of Jules Verne's gripping tale makes 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA a truly mesmerizing masterpiece!|The submarine the Nautilus was built to scale: 200 feet long and shaped as Verne had described it -- a monster with headlights as eyes.|Based on the classic Jules Verne novel, this was the first Disney feature filmed in CinemaScope.|The Disney special effects department built the giant squid out of rubber, steel spring, flexible tubing, glass cloth, Lucite, and plastic. When finished, the monster had tentacles that were 40 feet long and two feelers that measured 50 feet long. It took a crew of 28 to operate the beast's intricate remote controls.|The first time the battle with the giant squid was staged, the monster got waterlogged and sank. Real creatures weren't much more cooperative. When the filmmakers couldn't get real fish to swim by the cameras, the studio substituted animated fish instead.|Shooting locations for the film included various locales in the Bahamas and Jamaica, as well as the Disney backlot.
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Besides making a lavish, state-of-the-art live action film in the early 1950s, Walt Disney was perceptive enough to chronicle his film with a great deal of care and clarity. The new 90-minute documentary is stuffed with vintage behind-the-scenes color footage. As director Richard Fleisher, Kurt Douglas, and a bevy of technicians reminisce about their adventures on set, there is often footage chronicling the exact moment. This DVD edition is one of the most complete packages of a classic movie to date. Interesting tidbits include an audio re-recording Peter Lorre's dialogue, unused animation (for undersea scenes), gobs of photos, and vintage marketing films. A short segment about the Nautilus ingeniously combines computer animation with movie sequences, production photos, and blueprints for a tour of the sub. The jewel, though, is the original squid attack that was reshot because it looked so fake. Even on the new commentary track (enjoyable, but low-key), Fleischer thinks--and hopes--the footage is lost, yet seeing the sequence illustrates how the movie was almost sunk by a less-than-breathtaking final act. --Doug Thomas
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.55:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : 786936192476
- Director : Charles A. Nichols, Richard Fleischer
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Dolby, Widescreen, Live, Special Edition, Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned
- Run time : 2 hours and 7 minutes
- Release date : May 20, 2003
- Actors : James Mason, Kirk Douglas, Peter Ellenshaw, Elmo Williams, Vincent Di Fate
- Subtitles: : English
- Language : Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : WALT DISNEY PICTURES
- ASIN : B00005JKU0
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,843 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #170 in Kids & Family DVDs
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The Amazon review above will give you the bare bones of the story; a terrible "sea monster" - all glowing eyes and "breath like a furnace!" - is sinking ships just after the end of the American Civil War. Things have gotten so bad that maritime trade is being crippled; ships can't sail without a crew, the crews themselves having deserted in fear of the "monster." Almost in desperation, the authorities organize a hunt for the creature, and invite the famed oceanographer, "Professor Arronax," and his research assistant "Conseil," along, on a US warship, to lend the expedition scientific gravitas. Also along for the ride is a fearless harpooner, "Ned Land," looking for adventure, and the rewards of being the man who kills the "monster."
After more than a month at sea, and with no sighting of anything unusual, they are about to head for home when they see a ship, some miles distant, explode with enormous force. They race to the spot and arrive in time to see the vessel slipping beneath the waves with all hands. A lookout sees the creature in the distance, moving away from the area; they fire on it and it turns towards them. Slicing through the waves, the creature races towards its attackers with a hellish shriek, its eyes alight, just as the stories said, with an unearthly glow. Panic ensues on the ship, the gunner's fire repeatedly, but cannot find their range; the creature is covering the distance between them at incredible speed!
The resulting impact is shattering; Arronax, Conseil, and Land, are hurled into the sea, where they are separated. Arronax and Conseil watch helplessly as the crippled warship limps away into the distance, listing badly. After hours in the water, and completely lost in a fogbank, Arronax and Conseil come across the "monster" floating on the surface. They soon discover that what they thought was a supernatural beast, is, in fact, a fantastic vessel, a "sub-marine boat," capable of travel beneath the surface of the sea.
Seemingly deserted, they enter the ship and start to explore, soon to be joined by Ned Land, who paddles into view on an upturned skiff. From a massive view port, they see the crew outside the ship working on the seabed; once the crew returns, the three friends are quickly apprehended... now their adventure, and ours, is about to REALLY begin!
The ship they are on is called the "Nautilus," a technological wonderland, it's commanded by "Captain Nemo;" his crew, all of them to a man, absolutely loyal. The Captain has scant time for Conseil, and even less for Land, but he is pleased to meet the renowned Pierre Arronax, a man he sees, at least as far as their mutual fascination for the sea is concerned, as a kindred spirit. Nemo takes Arronax under his wing, slowly revealing to him the secrets of the deep through which they travel, and the fantastical secrets of the Nautilus itself. Nemo also shares his own terrible secrets with the oceanographer, experiences that have shaped him, and driven both him, and his crew, to disown any allegiances to any and all terrestrial governments and flags.
Nemo is portrayed by James Mason in a magnificently layered, complex performance. At first cold, austere, dark, and brooding, Mason slowly reveals the tortured soul of the man, driven by his own demons to do what he knows are terrible things, for, he hopes, the betterment of mankind. Neither hero nor villain, Mason's performance is beautifully nuanced, and his final scenes are especially moving.
The three other central characters are also played to perfection, Kirk Douglas, especially, has a blast with Ned Land, one moment slap-sticking his way through his song, "A Whale of a Tale," the next butting heads with Nemo, and plotting escape. Peter Lorre, as Conseil, is the perfect foil to Douglas' larger than life character, and the two of them seemed to have formed a genuine friendship on the set, something which shows through in the "hair" scenes... you'll know them when you see them! Paul Lukas is pitch perfect as Professor Arronax, all at once in thrall to Nemo's genius, but at the same time horrified by the terrible deeds he's capable of. And a final word has to go to the `biggest' character of all, the Nautilus itself; a gothic masterpiece, it's quite simply the greatest fantasy vehicle ever created for the silver screen... EVER! The Nautilus departs quite extensively from Verne's description, but, just like the film itself, it's completely within the spirit of the original story, more so than just about any film adaptation of classic Science Fantasy that I can think of!
One minor gripe, Nemo, as I have said before, is an incredibly complex character, so I was saddened to see on the back of the DVD case, the following; "...can the captive crew (Arronax etc) expose his (Nemo's) evil plan before he destroys the world?" After all that Disney has done to make this a landmark release, with hours of extras, including an incredible 90 minute(!) "making of" featurette, it's such a shame that Nemo is misrepresented so crudely.
Almost half a century(!) later, this is still Disney's crowning glory, and a glowing testament to visionary film making... HIGHLY recommended!!!
Walt was a great man and a visionery in my book. I especially enjoyed reading Diane Disney's book; telling her father's life story when I was going through high school and how Walt went through three bancrupcies, as I recall, before drawing Mickey Mouse on a subway one day, while his wife looked on viewing over his shoulder what he had drawn. He had named the character "Mortimer" but his wife proposed "Mickey" as a name, which Walt liked better; so goes Diane's account.
This film was, however, I think, his most ambitious, if not most costly; price wise. What a gambler he was! But he caught us kids with this one and boy how we lined up at the theatre's to see this one! I wasn't a real big Kirk Douglass fan back then. However I did enjoy Kirk Douglass in the motion picture film entitled "The Final Countdown" where he plays Captain Yelland aboard the aircraft carrier Nemitz which travels back into time a day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Another great film worth viewing I might add.
Anyway, in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, I saw myself more as Captain Nemo throughout the film; played by James Mason. Mason struck me as the perfect Captain Nemo, if there ever was going to be one on the silver screen. Douglass's character struck me more as a guy who was a jerk, out for profit and gain, as well as a good time, while not being a visionary of what Nemo was trying to accomplish as a peace ruler. So I don't know if it was his character or Douglass himself that turned me off.
While we all had our own imagination working for each of us, when we read the book, I think Walt came the closest anyone could in bringing it to the silver screen. Even if the subject was remade today, those my age would still be comparing it to the fabulous achievement Walt Disney and his people did with this production master while we waited in theatre lines to see the film again and again.
I even remember they had the giant squid on display at Disneyland, as a boy, in a giant "aquariam tank"; for lack of a better word. The tank was not real, but the lighting and the glass going around the display made it look real as you viewed the giant squid. It was well done for the viewing populace. Wish I had pictures, but then I was only a boy back then and my parents didn't take any picture of the display that I know of to this day.
Anyway, I gave this four stars, simply because I didn't think the role Kirk Douglass played was the right part for him, but the film itself is worth five stars. I've also been a long time fan of Peter Lorre, who I loved in the Humphrey Bogart film "The Maltese Falcon" and other old Hollywood classic films that graces my library collection. The behind the scenes DVD is also well worth the money that comes with the product.
The case and DVD were in excellent condtion and I have no complaints about the DVD quality. Purchase price was good too and delivery was on time.
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Anyway, it's a great movie.