When Captain Nemo saves the passengers of a sinking ship and takes them to his Utopian underwater city he discovers that not all of his guests agree to remain there forever.When Captain Nemo saves the passengers of a sinking ship and takes them to his Utopian underwater city he discovers that not all of his guests agree to remain there forever.When Captain Nemo saves the passengers of a sinking ship and takes them to his Utopian underwater city he discovers that not all of his guests agree to remain there forever.
- Skipper
- (as John Moore)
- Templemere Citizen
- (uncredited)
- …
- Templemere Citizen
- (uncredited)
- Templemere Citizen
- (uncredited)
- Nemo's Guard
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRoger Corman had planned to do a movie titled "Captain Nemo and the Floating City" based on two Jules Verne stories, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "The Floating City." The project eventually was scrubbed. But after reading about Jacques-Yves Cousteau's experiments in underwater habitats, MGM producer Steven Pallos picked up the project, moving the city under water. The film drew heavily on the supposed charm of the Victorian era, following agreement between director and scriptwriters to produce a popular escapist atmosphere, more the essence of Michael Todd's Around the World in Eighty Days (1972) than of Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954).
- GoofsNemo states his city is 10,000 fathoms deep which is 11.4 miles, the deepest part of any ocean on Earth is just under 7 miles.
- Quotes
Swallow Bath: [after rejecting an offer by the panicky Mr. Lomax to attempt to escape] I thought you wanted to leave.
Barnaby Bath: But not with that one. To get out of this place is going to take a very cool head. And that one's nearly lost his already.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cinemacabre TV Trailers (1993)
Robert Ryan plays a dedicated and fanatical Nemo who has built an underwater Shangri-La which is surviving a whole lot of water pressure from the ocean. Among the survivors are a US Senator played by Chuck Connors, and British people Allan Cuthberson who has claustrophobia and doesn't deal well with the atmosphere, two brothers who are petty crooks, Bill Fraser and Kenneth Connor from the Carry On series and Nannette Newman and her young son Christopher Hartshorne.
As the High Lama of Shangri-La was, Ryan is looking for good people to help with his underwater paradise. He marks Connors as talent, but Connor who is on a mission from Abe Lincoln to European powers does not want to be the Robert Conway of Temple Meer. He's resolved to escape and all the men want out, each for their own reasons.
Among other things Temple Meer has is electric lights before Edison and alchemy. For water and electricity they have a machine which produces gold as a waste product. That really interests Fraser and Connor. In fact gold has no monetary value in Temple Meer. It's used for various drinking cups etc. because it is the most malleable of metals and doesn't corrode. Of course it's a got of value where Connor and Fraser hail from.
There are some nice underwater action sequences when the Nautilus tangles with a giant stingray all in the Jules Verne tradition. Captain Nemo And The Underwater City combines the best of both Verne and Hilton, two of the most popular authors around.
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- Aug 2, 2012
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Kapitän Nemo
- Filming locations
- Off Malta, Mediterranean Sea(Kine Weekly 28/12/1968)
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1