captainsolo said:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Finally got around to seeing this. OH MY GOD! Murder, Death, Madness, Obsession, Alcoholism, Alienation, Science, Morbid humor, 50's underwater photography, Technicolor, serious plotting, an actual narrative scope, three of the screen's finest actors and GIANT SQUID.

This is MY kind of Disney film. Wow. Walt's desire to do something serious and dramatic paid off in dividends. They managed to do the novel straight, come up with new effects to do so, photograph in Technicolor Cinemascope in its very early usage with the problematic lenses, and sell it to children!

This is magical! Honest literary adaptations for children? You can do this and provoke actual deep thoughts? And they let you?

Admittedly the opening 15-20 minutes or so is very slow but as soon as the Nautilus attacks the film just takes off.

4 balls out of 4.

New all time favorite Disney productions ranked:

1. Pinocchio

2. 1950's Zorro series

3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

4. Everything else.

That was a really good rendition of one of my favourite books! I liked how it was faithful to the story and also thought it had good photography. I also thought Captain Nemo was well cast and played. It had very good special effects for a 50s movie, IMO, and I would probably rate this 4.5/5 for story and 4/5 for overall enjoyment.