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Mysterious Island

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1941 | 75 min | Adventure, Science Fiction

Monday Morning Maybeearly rating

Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe

With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it
Made for sci-fi fans and adventure fans. If you loved To Have and Have Not, start here.
The mood
Exciting.
The pace
Moves along nicely, at 1 hr 15 min.
What might put you off
  • It's in Russian, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
  • Made in 1941: an older pace and style.

Based on Verne's book The Mysterious Island, five POWs escape from a camp in a balloon during the Civil War and crash-land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Trying to settle with their lives they find someone is helping them.

How it earned its rating

  • CriticsNot counted

    Not enough reviews on record yet

  • AudiencesNot counted

    Not measured yet: not enough ratings

  • AwardsNot counted

    No major awards or nominations

  • Reach & staying powerBelow par

    Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release

  • Buzz & cultural impactWeak

    About 2K people sought it out in the past year

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Cast & crew

Directed by Eduard Pentslin

  • Aleksey KrasnopolskyCyrus Smith
  • Pavlo KyianskyGideon Spillett
  • Andrey Andriyenko-ZemskovPencroft
  • Ivan KozlovAyrton
  • Robert RossNeb
  • Yuri GrammatikatiHerbert
  • Andrii SovaJupe
  • Nikolai KomissarovCapitan Nemo
  • Nikolai Volkov St.adjutant to the commander of the Confederate army