I'm ready for an adventure, a sea adventure, an undersea adventure. What? you're not? To bad. Based on the Jules Verne classic published in 1870, the movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) has a superb cast; James Mason (1) plays Captain Nemo, Kirk Douglas (2) is Ned, Peter Lorre (3) portrays Conseil, and the Oscar winning Paul Lukas (4) is the Professor. A winner itself of two Oscar's and one of the first movies to be filmed in CinemaScope, it is the undersea adventure recommendation for this week. For those who have not experienced the wonder of the novel, the actual title, Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers, translates to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, the words not the number. A league is about 4 k's. Some think it's a depth, which would be about 43,000 nautical miles, that's deep. That's about two trips around our little blue world, which is what the title really means...
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