Film · Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Mysterious Island (1951)
SEE Sensational Inter-Space Serial Thrills...as Mercury Space Ship Invades...
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
- Director
- Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Writers
- Jules Verne, Lewis Clay, Royal K. Cole
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- September 13, 1951
Cast
Richard CraneCapt. Cyrus Harding
Marshall ReedJack Pencroft
Karen RandleRulu of Mercury- Ralph HodgesHerbert 'Bert' Brown
Gene RothPirate Capt. Shard
Hugh ProsserGideon Spillet
Leonard PennCapt. Nemo
Terry FrostAyrton - The Wild Man- Rusty WescoattMoley - Shard Henchman
Bernie HamiltonNeb
William FawcettMr. Jackson- George RobothamMercurian
Stanley BlystoneConfederate Officer- Roy ButlerThug in Park
Frank EllisPirate
Knox ManningNarrator (voice)
Zon MurrayThug in Park
Frank O'ConnorConfederate Officer- Sid RossMercurian
Tom TylerUnion Dispatch Rider
