Mysterious Island
Release Date: 1951-09-13
Rating : 5.333/10
Duration : 252 minutes
Genres : Science Fiction, Adventure, Action, Fantasy
Director : Spencer Gordon Bennet
Writer : Lewis Clay, Royal K. Cole, George H. Plympton
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
Cast
Richard Crane
Marshall Reed
Karen Randle
Ralph Hodges
Gene Roth
Hugh Prosser