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Mysterious Island

5.3 252 mins Science Fiction   Adventure   Action   Fantasy   1951
Columbia Pictures  
Director(s): Spencer Gordon Bennet

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.

Casts of Mysterious Island

Richard Crane

as Capt. Cyrus Harding

Marshall Reed

as Jack Pencroft

Karen Randle

as Rulu of Mercury

Ralph Hodges

as Herbert 'Bert' Brown

Gene Roth

as Pirate Capt. Shard

Hugh Prosser

as Gideon Spillet

Leonard Penn

as Capt. Nemo

Terry Frost

as Ayrton - The Wild Man

Rusty Wescoatt

as Moley - Shard Henchman

William Fawcett

as Mr. Jackson

George Robotham

as Mercurian

Stanley Blystone

as Confederate Officer

Roy Butler

as Thug in Park

Frank Ellis

as Pirate

Knox Manning

as Narrator (voice)

Zon Murray

as Thug in Park

Frank O'Connor

as Confederate Officer

Sid Ross

as Mercurian

Tom Tyler

as Union Dispatch Rider

Anthony Warde

as Confederate Officer

Pierre Watkin

as Confederate Officer

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