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Mysterious Island

Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle, Ralph Hodges, Gene Roth (Actor) Rated:

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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.

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Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
MPAA rating : s_medNotRated NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Media Format : Multiple Formats, NTSC, Black & White
Run time : 4 hours and 12 minutes
Release date : September 25, 2012
Actors : Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle, Ralph Hodges, Gene Roth
Studio : Cheezy Flicks Ent
ASIN : B008I5OI02
Number of discs : 1

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One of The Crowd

The Complete Serial, But Picture Quality Only Fair

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2021

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Somewhat disappointed with this title - one chapter of the serial is included as an extra on the ICONS OF HORROR: SAM KATZMAN double DVD, and there the image is sharp and clear, from a 35mm print; here it's slightly fuzzy and muddy throughout all 15 chapters, so it's not as much fun to watch, as if from VHS or a dupey 16mm print. It would be nice if CBS Home Video released the entire serial with a decent transfer - it's rough going when the image is so soft, and doesn't do justice to Spencer Gordon Bennet's smooth direction.

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Thomas Heckhaus Jr.

Laughable treatment of a Verne Classic

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2018

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Jules Verne is spinning in his grave for sure. I've been reading the old classics in my senior years and have been buying as many movies made from them as I can. I purchased this due to Richard Crane (Rocky Jones) in the starring role and I wanted to see how well and close to Verne's book an old Saturday Matinee serial would be.
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As we all know Mysterious Island follows a group of Northern Soldiers who escape the Confederacy in a balloon and are swept to an island in the pacific ocean. They rely on their wits and help from a mysterious benefactor to survive. There is also reference to two other Verne books. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and "In Search of the Castaways".

This movie is laughable in content alone. We have both "Volcano People" harassing our adventurers and people from the planet Mercury attempting to take over the planet Earth. My guess is that 90% of the movie is foot chase scenes in the same canyon.

I've been told that "Plan Nine from Outer Space" is the worst movie ever made this rendition of Mysterious Island" is a tie for that honor.

All in all a thoroughly laughable movie for a rainy day.

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aggie03

Excellent Serial from Cheezy Flicks

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2015

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Mysterious Island: This is one of the most entertaining, larger-than-life serials I’ve ever seen, with more interwoven plot elements than you can shake a stick at—escaped Civil War POWs, blood thirsty pirates, a wild man, native Volcano People, Mercurian invaders and the mysterious Captain Nemo all thrown together on one island! True, as other reviewers have pointed out, if you bought this DVD expecting a faithful rendering of the Jules Verne classic, you’ll be disappointed; but if you bought this as a fan of classic cliffhanger serials, you’ll be extremely pleased. The print used for this Cheezy Flicks release is quite good, with clear sound and sharp image.

FYI, I bought this from Cheezy Distribution via Amazon along with several other titles because they offered the best price, and they refunded me more than 90% of the system-generated per-title shipping costs, only charging me what it actually cost to ship the DVDs. For the volume of titles I bought, purchasing them at a lower price from Cheezy and paying only five bucks to ship the lot was a far better deal than buying the DVDs at a higher list price from Amazon to get the free-shipping-over-$35 deal.

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Cheesy good fun!

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2016

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Fun serial broadcast brought together for viewing in one collection. Surprisingly good print considering the age of the film. Don't look too hard at the logic employed by the characters when they fought each other, as they constantly ran off after dropping their weapons and always failed to secure their prisoners.

Just enjoy it, and remember it was written for a simpler time and audience.

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Stanley Kohl;

Devil Girl from Mars on Gilligan's Island?

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2013

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Well, almost, but the female character is from Mercury, and the island is somewhere in Simi Valley. A 1951 Columbia serial, "Mysterious Island" is in 15 chapters, directed by Spencer Bennet and starring Richard Crane, best known as television's "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger." While the titles claim it is based on Jules Verne's "L'Île mystérieuse," the story was "enhanced" for the screenplay by Lewis Clay, Royal K. Cole and George H. Plympton.

Captain Cyrus Harding (Richard Crane), of the Union Army Engineers gets captured, in the closing months of the U.S. Civil War, owing to the Confederates' use of an observation balloon. He manages to take over the balloon, with the help of his servant, Neb (Bernard Hamilton) and three fellow prisoners: sailor Jack Pencroft (Marshall Reed), Pencroft's adopted son Herbert 'Bert' Brown (Ralph Hodges) and journalist Gideon Spillett (Hugh Prosser). They get caught in a storm and are blown thousands of miles to the southwest, ending up on a strange uncharted volcanic island.

The castaways encounter pirates, led by Captain Shard (Gene Roth) and they also have problems with "Wild Man" Ayrton (Terry Frost), who appears to be insane. They are aided by a mystery man, who keeps his identity a secret, but Columbia's writers added "strange volcano people" who are initially hostile, possibly owing to their cheap costumes, and space aliens from the planet Mercury, led by Rulu (Karen Randle) searching for an element powerful enough to destroy the Earth. The island appears to have well-maintained trails, and "meadows" that look like picnic grounds, though at least there is some outdoor photography. The special effects are not good, nor is most of the dialogue, and there is little intentional humor. The plot moves slowly, chapters filled with a lot of chasing around, alliances being formed, and pseudo-science, fairly typical for serials of the early 1950's. With the right expectations it's tolerable when watched one chapter at a time, making a little more sense if less entertaining than Columbia's "Captain Video" serial, released the same year.

Cheezy Flicks' edition, # 12-008 is on a double-layer DVD, which should be adequate for the fifteen chapters, total time being just over four hours. The video appears to be nearly identical to the AC Comics/CultRetro edition on two single-layer DVD-R discs, having a slightly unsharp image, noticed mostly in the small print at the bottom of the credits, and rather obvious digital compression artifacts. Cheezy's DVD might be a little worse, with some minor vertical patterns where there is high contrast, such as the lettering of the titles, seen when the image is magnified but not a problem on a smaller display. The compression causes some odd patterns to appear due to limited number of intensity levels, and occasionally motion is a little unsmooth, though neither effect is especially severe. Except when greatly enlarged, the image during the chapters is sharp enough, the gray scale is adequate, and the sound is fairly decent. Cheezy adds some "drive-in" intermissions, and advertisements for some of their other releases, and if they add only slight entertainment value the extra disc space needed isn't likely the cause of the digital compression artifacts in the serial.

Far better serials were made, but it is good to have this example of Columbia's later efforts on DVD, even if Cheezy's source was rather distant from the original film print. Knox Manning's short introductions and next-week "teasers" sound enthusiastic, and leaving a day or more between chapters makes the plot seem a little less redundant. For those interested in the later serials, who aren't expecting a faithful version of Verne's story, Cheezy's DVD is a welcome release.

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Robert E. Peterson

Don't expect the same old

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2021

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Mysterious Island that you've known before! While there are some similarities, it still has it's own story! Pretty good serial and well worth a watch if you're a serial lover!! RP

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Tenorbone

An invader from Mercury?

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2015

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The copy I received is a good print and I finally got to see all of the chapters. However it should have been released back in the mid to late 1930s as it has much in common with the movie serials of that day. However I enjoyed it.Thanks for the speedy delivery.

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Colin Smith

Good fun!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2013

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This Cheezy Flicks release of the 1951 black & white cinema cliffhanger serial 'Mysterious Island' has an unsharp and soft looking picture quality, but along with the sound is OK/acceptable. Spread over 15 episodes, the total running time slightly exceeds the 4 hour mark. There are no subtitles. The extras are a 4-minute intermission collection of animated ads, along with a 10-minute collection of trailers for other Cheezy Flicks releases. Although advertised as Region 1, this release WILL play on a Region 2 DVD player.

Jules Verne's story has been tweaked a little here & there... Customised to accommodate an alien invasion, an indigenous tribe, and a long-haired Jethro Tull-esque wild man (but is he quite what he seems?)... A cheesy adventure/sci-fi melange, but unlike the 1961 movie version there is NO gigantic wildlife anywhere!.. Not even a giant crab to feast on (sigh).

It doesn't take long to realise that you're in familiar cliffhanger territory: cheap props, a padded script, cheesy performances & dialogue, dodgy special effects, with each episode finale throwing the viewer enough bait to keep you coming back for more. The story kicks off in 1865, with Captain Harding (Richard Crane) and a small group of Union civil war prisoners (along with a small dog!) escaping aboard an hot-air balloon which eventually reaches the titular island. Naturally their arrival coincides with the appearance of an invasion party from the Planet Mercury, with the alien trio made up of the aloof Rulu (Karen Randle) and her two henchmen.

The Mercurian party are on a mission to extract a deadly substance which could destroy mankind, but this particular Mercurian Madam seems more interested in running to the nearest high vantage point to take pot shots at everyone with her cheap ray gun, before retreating to her secret hideaway in the rocks. In fact, running around plays a major part in the story, with our fugitive heroes often battling marauding pirates and hiding behind rocks while running in an impeccably choreographed & orderly way. I love the comic-strip-style action & dialogue - it's delivered in such a delightfully stilted and precise manner. While resplendent in ludicrously odd apparel, the indigenous 'Volcano People' arm themselves with bizarrely crooked spears.

The cast is mostly obscure, but the 'Neb' character is played by Bernard 'Bernie' Hamilton (the gruff Captain Dobey in 'Starsky & Hutch'). Not the best example of the genre, but fans of vintage cliffhangers should have some fun with it. 7/10.

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Vic

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2020

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This a serial l had not known about, but having watched a film of the same name the other night that was too good, and also l collect serials l now have this one, delivery was excellent as was the film, and it's original, a lot of serials are public domain and you buy a copy but this one is the real thing.

. Harold Richards

Classic serial

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2018

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Classic serial that takes me back to going to the kids saturday afternoon pictures

Shadow Man ( uk )

good attempt 1951 cliffhanger serial

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2014

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not gonna bore you with a long synopis , lots of shooting, running up and down, punch ups, - i thought it was ok, the sound is fine but picture possibly could have been better if released on a 2 dvd set instead of 4hrs 4 mins on to a single dvd distortion lines can be seen through out.

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