Mysterious Island
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Mysterious Island
-- Escaping a Confederate prison in an observation balloon, five men (led by Michael Craig and Gary Merrill) wind up on a Pacific island where they encounter giant-sized animals, a shipwrecked Englishwoman (Joan Greenwood) and her niece, pirates, an erupting volcano and the helping hand of Captain Nemo (Herbert Lom). Director Cy Enfield's sequel to Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" is a rousing adventure tale with intriguing plot twists and imaginative special effects by Ray Harryhausen but the ending flags. Despite the usual stylized violence and menace, the result is exciting family fare with an anti-war message. (A-I) (br)
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1961
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Movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.