Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
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| Captain Nemo and the Underwater City | |
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 Promotional poster for the film |
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| Directed by | James Hill |
| Produced by | Steven Pallos Bertram Ostrer |
| Written by | Pip and Jane Baker R. Wright Campbell |
| Starring | Robert Ryan Chuck Connors Nanette Newman |
| Music by | Angela Morley |
| Cinematography | Alan Hume |
| Editing by | Bill Lewthwaite |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) |  December 19, 1969 December 25, 1969 October 7, 1970 December 27, 1970 |
| Running time | 105 min. |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Mysterious Island |
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City is a 1969 British film, featuring the character Captain Nemo and some of the settings of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was written by Pip and Jane Baker and stars Robert Ryan as Nemo.
It is considered a follow-up film to the 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and 1961's Mysterious Island.[citation needed]
In this story, Nemo rescues a group of survivors from a sinking ship and takes them to his underwater city, a self-sustaining utopian colony with communitarian inhabitants. He will not allow them to leave his colony and return to civilization, but they finally escape in their urge for personal freedom.
[edit] External links
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City at the Internet Movie Database
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