Talk:Mysterious Island (1961 film)

Moderately loyal to the book?
I haven't seen this film, but I've read the book, and I just don't see how a movie can be moderately loyal to *this* book if it features giant animals that are the products of Captain Nemo's experiments. Sounds more like someone took the first part of the book and grafted the end of the island of doctor moreau.

I'll try to watch the movie so I can actually fill in more, but can someone who's seen the movie confirm? The book is a standard shipwreck story, only it's a balloon-wreck, and it ties up stories from two of Vernes's other books, namely In Search of the Castaways and 20k Leagues under the Sea. --Lucifer arma 10:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

gas balloon
The article originally referred to the balloon as helium filled; the movie as I watched it last night made no mention of helium and a little search sturned up references that Civil War balloons were hot air, hydrogen or coal gas. It was obviously not a hot air balloon, so I substituted "gas" for the anachronistic "helium". Naaman Brown (talk) 13:31, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Not Licoln Island, But a "Floating" Phenomenon
What has always confused me from the time I was a child and went ga-ga over Jules Verne's works was how the Union Soldiers were able to get from Virginia, USA, into the Pacific Ocean region. Impossible, even by the "Deux ex Machina" of a powerful hurricane. We all know that Mr. Verne has anathema for unfounded speculation into natural or scientific phenomenon, and as the "Jet-Stream" had not been discovered at that time (and again, impossible for anything as flimsy as a ballon to suvive in it), it is obvious that Jules wouldn't even entertain (as H.G. Wells freely did) the possiblity of the happless soldiers falling through a 'space warp'of the type gradually and teasingly described in "LOST". (How else can one explain making a perilous voyage of four-thousand miles or more, from the relative east coast of North America to well far out into the Pacific Ocean? It seems after many decades and adaptions of Verne's notion of a "mysterious" never-been charted islands in the later 19th. century (again a highly improbable notion), and numerous movie adaptions to boot, the Producers of "Lost" finally figured how to get from point "A" to "B";  By using a Mobius (S)trip! --67.86.107.30 (talk) 07:04, 22 September 2011 (UTC)Veryverser

The chest…
The synopsis talks of a “treasure chest” washing up with “old” things in it; surely, while the objects in it may be described as “treasures” to castaways who lack in tools and weapons, the chest is in fact a contemporary sea-chest, washed ashore from a wreck, lost over-board from a passing ship, or perhaps jettisoned to lighten a ship taking in water? Nobody in the film makes any reference to the age of the items, and are familiar enough with them to recognise cardboard cartons of ammo for the rifles without opening the boxes. Jock123 (talk) 11:40, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

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Neb
It is a long time since I read the book but I seem to recall that "Neb" was some kind of ape, not a black soldier as in the film. Clock Number 302 (talk) 15:41, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Dan Jackson
The link to Dan Jackson (Neb) is to a different person of the same name.Clock Number 302 (talk) 17:05, 1 March 2019 (UTC)