20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1954 • 127 minutes

About this movie

Climb aboard the Nautilus and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Captain Nemo, brilliantly portrayed by James Mason. Wavering between genius and madness, Nemo has launched a deadly crusade across the seven seas. But can the captive crew expose his evil plan before he destroys the world? Disney's brilliant Academy Award®-winning (Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects) adaptation of Jules Verne's gripping tale makes 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA a truly mesmerizing masterpiece!

Ratings and reviews

I love the book as a kid and bought an illustrated version of it as an adult. Saw the James Mason, Kirk Douglas movie as a Kid and bought it. This movie had great casting for the key characters but in my humble opinion wasn't faithful to the delicious science and exploration qualities that Verne envisioned in his written work but it was okay. The Book glues you to your seat and is untouchable as a classic Sci Fi tale, but if you love Disney it's definitely worth a look and way better than other adaptations I've seen of the story.

One of my all time favorites. It seems like every site that offers it in digital wants $17.99 Google, Amazon, Vudu. Way to much for a movie that's 70 years old.

One of my favorite books but this is just so unfaithful to the book that it becomes offensive. The way they deal with Captain Nemo's 'end' is so different & lacks the poetry of the original story.