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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City is a 1969 British film directed by James Hill and starring Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors and Nanette Newman. It features the character Captain Nemo and is inspired by Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. It was written by Pip and Jane Baker. [2]
Nautilus is a British ten-part adventure drama television miniseries created by James Dormer. [2] It is a reimagining of Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, presenting an origin story for Captain Nemo, an Indian prince-turned-crusading scientist.
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Ryan had the lead in Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969). Along with William Holden and Ernest Borgnine , Ryan was goaded by Sam Peckinpah during the making of The Wild Bunch (1969). After production in Mexico moved from Parras to Torreón , his request to take a few days off to campaign for Eugene McCarthy during the 1968 Democratic ...
Captain Nemo (/ ˈ n eɪ m oʊ /; also known as Prince Dakkar) is a character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction books, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875).
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) – A British film based on characters from the novel, starring Robert Ryan as Captain Nemo. The Black Hole (1979) – A loose film adaptation by Disney with a science-fiction/spaceship setting.
Like Captain Nemo, Odysseus wanders the seas in exile (though only for ten years) and similarly grieves the tragic deaths of his crewmen. The novel repeatedly mentions the U.S. Naval Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury , an oceanographer who investigated the winds, seas, and currents, collected samples from the depths, and charted the world's oceans.
In following decades Hill is best remembered for Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969), Black Beauty (1971), The Belstone Fox (1973), The young visitors (1984), and for the two children's television series Worzel Gummidge and Worzel Gummidge Down Under, almost all of which he either directed, wrote and/or produced.