It's an alternative offer of Jules Verne's Mysterious Island, a trash picture with strong humor oriented on the funny and clumsy character of the Prof. Thomas Artelect, they casting Peter Cushing and Terence Stamp to draw attention in order to sell the movie as leading role, actually they acted for fifteen minutes or so, in the beginning and the ending, due the age of Cushing, the storyline developed with a secondary casting plentiful, an odd adventure of Mysterious Island perfect entertainment for all ages, perfect for a Sunday matinee.
The story began when an Island is about to be auctioned in San Francisco just two men are able to contest before the highest price the first the bleak Mr. Skinner (Terence Stamp) who already know that the has a hidden gold there, in other hand the wealthiest man of United States Mr. William T. Kolderup (Peter Cushing) who is the winner for mere five millions dollars, his young nephew Jeff Morgan (Ian Sera) wants explore this unknown Island, thus Mr. William choose his partnership Prof. Thomas Artelect (David Hatton) an expedition is settles at once.
A Steamboat of the own Mr. William is assigned to send both bold guys at the Island, nonetheless along the night the ship is invaded by weird sea monsters, they got escape and reach the island by dawn, there an endless nightmare takes place, first they saves a black man about to be sacrifice by a bunch of evil cannibals, shortly thereafter came up all sort of giant dinosaurs, they hide in a cave, once more weirdo insect monsters underneath of earth, at shore they are attacked by a countless seaweed's monsters, slipping away helped by a lovely Chimpanzee, soon they meet a lone French girl Meg (Ana Obregon) who live there after a shipwreck, soon they are chased by a gang of masked men, well it sounds bizzare? Just waiting by an unexpected final.
Delightful trash adventure having in the funniest and priceless character Prof. Thomas Artelect the highlight of the movie, also the breathtaking French girl with a sexual interesting on Jeff Morgan, among fake volcanic eruption, lousy monsters all this surround by a lavish landscape at Canary Island as beautiful waterfalls clean rivers and exuberant rain forest, I'm startled by unwillingness over so pleasant picture, though it may be an whimsical offer, it's a true guilty pleasure gem that I watched in my youth days, that came at my hands with a restored DVD with a classic dubbed version attached!!
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First watch: 1986 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 6
The story began when an Island is about to be auctioned in San Francisco just two men are able to contest before the highest price the first the bleak Mr. Skinner (Terence Stamp) who already know that the has a hidden gold there, in other hand the wealthiest man of United States Mr. William T. Kolderup (Peter Cushing) who is the winner for mere five millions dollars, his young nephew Jeff Morgan (Ian Sera) wants explore this unknown Island, thus Mr. William choose his partnership Prof. Thomas Artelect (David Hatton) an expedition is settles at once.
A Steamboat of the own Mr. William is assigned to send both bold guys at the Island, nonetheless along the night the ship is invaded by weird sea monsters, they got escape and reach the island by dawn, there an endless nightmare takes place, first they saves a black man about to be sacrifice by a bunch of evil cannibals, shortly thereafter came up all sort of giant dinosaurs, they hide in a cave, once more weirdo insect monsters underneath of earth, at shore they are attacked by a countless seaweed's monsters, slipping away helped by a lovely Chimpanzee, soon they meet a lone French girl Meg (Ana Obregon) who live there after a shipwreck, soon they are chased by a gang of masked men, well it sounds bizzare? Just waiting by an unexpected final.
Delightful trash adventure having in the funniest and priceless character Prof. Thomas Artelect the highlight of the movie, also the breathtaking French girl with a sexual interesting on Jeff Morgan, among fake volcanic eruption, lousy monsters all this surround by a lavish landscape at Canary Island as beautiful waterfalls clean rivers and exuberant rain forest, I'm startled by unwillingness over so pleasant picture, though it may be an whimsical offer, it's a true guilty pleasure gem that I watched in my youth days, that came at my hands with a restored DVD with a classic dubbed version attached!!
Thanks for reading.
Resume:
First watch: 1986 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 6