20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 3
One of Disney's finest live-action adventures, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea brings Jules Verne's classic sci-fi tale to vivid life, and features an awesome giant squid.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0
One of Disney's finest live-action adventures, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea brings Jules Verne's classic sci-fi tale to vivid life, and features an awesome giant squid.
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Originally produced by Disney in 1954, this whimsical version of Jules Verne's classic novel has been put to animation. When Captain Nemo takes a professor and a stout-hearted sailor captive, he doesn't count on the change of heart he would experience after the sailor rescues him from a giant squid. Against all odds, the captain decides to share his vast nautical knowledge with the rest of the world -- that is, if circumstance allows. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
Jan 1, 1954 Wide
May 20, 2003
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Cast
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Kirk Douglas
Ned Land -
James Mason
Captain Nemo -
Paul Lukas
Prof. Aronnax Narrator -
Peter Lorre
Conseil -
Robert J. Wilke
1st Mate of "Nautilus" -
Carleton Young
John Howard -
Percy Helton
Diver -
Ted Cooper
Mate of "Abraham Lincol... -
Edward Marr
Shipping Agent -
Fred Graham
Casey Moore -
Ted de Corsia
Captain Farragut -
Esmeralda
Conseil -
Harry Harvey
Shipping Clerk -
J.M. Kerrigan
Billy -
Herb Vigran
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All Critics (27) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (3) | DVD (18)
Walt Disney's production of 20000 Leagues under the Sea is very special kind of picture, combining photographic ingenuity, imaginative story telling and fiscal daring.
Top CriticGrandly entertaining.
This is one of the great movie adventures, fully deserving its canonisation in Disney World.
As fabulous and fantastic as anything he has ever done in cartoons is Walt Disney's 'live action' movie made from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
The talky 20,000 Leagues probably won't thrill kids fresh from The Matrix, but they may be interested to know that the Verne film was the effects marvel of its day.
A good one that could have been better with a little less Kirk Douglas and more scientific things to gawk at in wonder.
Bring on the David Fincher-helmed remake.
A classic action-adventure for older kids.
James Mason's portrayal of Captain Nemo is a hard-edged, dramatic performance, with no winking nods or cartoonish layers. You could transport Mason whole into a much darker movie with R-rated violence, and he would fit like a glove.
A breathtaking piece of entertainment, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is amongst the finest live-action films to come out of Disney Studios.
Far superior to the majority of genre efforts from the period (or any period, for that matter), with production design and technical effects that have dated hardly at all.
One of the best Disney live action films and a classic fantasy-adventure.
This is one of Disney's best, and one of the all-time adventure greats. And that, I swear by my tattoo.
Disney's 1954 live action adventure has lost none of its verve and splendor during its subsequent half-century tour.
20,000 Leagues is a sublime story of isolation, of disparate masculine seclusion, akin to those found in such films as Jaws and The Thing.
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May 21, 2013:
David Fincher's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Gets BumpedProduction won't get started until at least 2014.
April 2, 2013:
Australia Woos 20,000 Leagues Under the SeaA big tax break will send David Fincher down under.
February 15, 2013:
David Fincher's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Moving Forward at DisneyChanning Tatum is now rumored to star in place of the formerly-rumored Brad Pitt.
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