Mysterious Island

Mysterious Island, American science-fiction adventure film, released in 1961, that is based loosely on Jules Verne’s book of the same name, a sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. In the film a group of Union prisoners escape, via hot-air balloon, from a Confederate stockade during the American Civil War and end up on a mysterious and remote uncharted island. Two stranded women join the prisoners as they battle pirates, escape from a volcano, and...