{"id":30364,"date":"2022-08-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30364"},"modified":"2022-08-15T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T20:55:35","slug":"the-mysterious-island-1929-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30364","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Mysterious Island&#8221; (1929) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z081822zview_mysteriousisland29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Mysterious Island <\/strong><\/em>(1929)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Lucien Hubbard, Benjamin Christensen<\/strong> (uncredited), <strong>Maurice Tourneur<\/strong> (uncredited)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Lucien Hubbard<\/strong> based on <strong>Jules Verne<\/strong>&#8216;s novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3bRpnTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mysterious Island<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0<strong> Lionel Barrymore, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Lloyd Hughes <\/strong>and <strong>Montagu Love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER&#8217;S Dramatic Spectale Based on Jules Vern&#8217;s Immortal Novel!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Count Andre Dakkar (Barrymore) is a brilliant scientist and beloved ruler of an island kingdom.\u00a0 Dakkar along with his daughter Sonia (Gadsdon) and her fiance (who is also Dakkar&#8217;s right hand man) have invented two ships that can go undersea.\u00a0 Just as they are about to test the first ship, the island is attacked by the evil Baron Falon&#8217;s\u00a0 (Love) army.\u00a0 Falon wants the island country and undersea ships for his own!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack damages the first ship which sinks to the bottom of the ocean.\u00a0 The crew realizes they have no way to surface and will die at the bottom of the sea&#8230; if they are not killed by the strange creatures and gigantic monsters that live on the ocean floor.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Sonia hopes to use the second ship to save the crew of the first vessel.\u00a0 Little does she know the horrors that await&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Mysterious Island<\/em> has some cool special underwater effects, but truth be told, I was enjoying the less scifi aspects of the film more.\u00a0 Still, you cannot go wrong with Lionel Barrymore in a Jules Verne adventure!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">The Mysterious Island<\/i><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">\u00a0earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z081822zview_mysteriousisland29b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mysterious Island (1929) Director: Lucien Hubbard, Benjamin Christensen (uncredited), Maurice Tourneur (uncredited) Screenplay by: \u00a0Lucien Hubbard based on Jules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30365,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30364\/revisions\/30365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}