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Walt Disney's fun live-action adaptation of Jules Verne's classic science-fiction story features some of the best special effects produced in the 1950s. Captain Nemo the commander of a futuristic submarine called the Nautilus rescues the survivors of a shipwreck and takes them on an incredible journey far below the ocean's surface. They encounter numerous wonders of the sea including an enormous squid which attacks the ship in the film's most unforgettable sequence. Academy Awards: Best Special Effects Best ArtSet Direction.

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In a dark futuristic world literature reading and independent thought have been outlawed. The government has gone so far as to employ a special league of firemen to burn all books on sight. But when one otherwise obedient fireman Oskar Werner meets an intriguing revolutionary Julie Christie she provokes him to question the legitimacy of his actions. Tensions mount when he blatantly transgresses the very laws he's employed to enforce and his terrified wife becomes an informant. Because the subject of censorship seems to be perpetually contemporary one can argue that the significant social impact of FAHRENHEIT 451 will forever be current. Franois Truffaut's film is based on the best-selling novel by Ray Bradbury.

A wonderfully crisp script and quick-paced direction distinguishes this film about an alien creature discovered near an Arctic outpost. Members of a scientific research team cart the frozen pilot back to camp where it thaws out--much to their regret.

Don Siegel's cult masterpiece interpreted as an allegory of both McCarthyism and Communism is undoubtedly one of the screen's most disturbing evocations of paranoia. It stars Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Binnell a physician whose traumatized arrival in the emergency room of a San Francisco hospital leads the staff to believe he's lost his mind. In a series of flashbacks he unwinds a bizarre account of his last few days. After his return from a trip to rural Santa Mira his nurse Sally Jean Willes explains that his office has been flooded with patients who have made appointments yet never appeared. Former girlfriend Becky Driscoll Dana Wynter tells him that she's unable to rid herself of the belief that the man claiming to be her uncle is an impostor. A hysterical young boy refuses to return home claiming that his mother is not his mother. Miles's concern over this pattern of incidents temporarily allayed by some jargon from the town psychiatrist is newly aroused when he gets a phone call from friend Jack Belice

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is based on Jules Verne's 1864 novel. A scientist heads out on a treacherous journey to the center of the earth. With him are an intrepid student an Icelandic guide and the widow of a geologist who steals his information in an attempt to beat him to the earth's core. Along the way the group are confronted by all manner of dangerous obstacles: excessive heat and cold gale force winds and tremendous floods.

This fantasy adventure is based on the 1870 novel by Jules Verne. A small motley group of soldiers and civilians flee the 1865 siege of Richmond via a hot air balloon and end up on an isolated island crawling with over-sized crabs birds and bees. Even more astonishing they discover three other humans inhabiting the island: two shipwrecked women and the illustrious long-lost Captain Nemo. Ray Harryhausen's special effects which include a battle with a giant crab and abduction by an enormous bird still have the power to thrill and amaze.

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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/28/2004