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A Kingdom Under the Sea
Montagu Love, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Connelly, and Dolores Brinkman receive a radio message from the submarine at the bottom of the sea.
sort of radio used for communication while under the sea.
Owing to the activities of the villain in the plot, one submarine, with the inventor, his young assistant and the crew aboard, is fired upon by a company of hussars, is disabled and sinks. The second submarine comes info the villain's possession. The inventor's sister has made a futile attempt to prevent this, and during the fracas that results, the craft is damaged by a bomb thrown by the girl.
Lest this should all appear too confusing, it may be noted that the purpose is to have the two crippled submarines-meet five miles beneath the waves, and in that very unusual locale, allow their occupants to settle their dispute with each other. It should also be recorded, in passing, that the sister
Members of the submarine crew,
of the inventor and his young assistant are in love.
Everything turns out very differently from what anybody might anticipate, including the audience, because the inventor and his enemy and the rest, encounter the denizens of the strange monarchy in the oceanic deep, who were never heard of before nor since, but who, as somebody connected with the film blithely remarked, may exist for all of that. These are the little creatures with the helmet heads and goggling eyes I have described.
"The Mysterious Island" will be a picture dealing in imaginative possibilities, laid in a remote time and place, as far as its historical aspect goes,
but mostly in a might-be-if-you'll-let-it-be land — I mean "sea." In other words, it's the stuff that dreams are made of, and of such the screen affords examples all too few.
"What will be done with the film taken two years ago?" you may ask. Well, that's admittedly a question, although I am told that some of it will be used. M.G.-M. spent no less than $500,000 in an expedition to the Bahama Islands, where they photographed undersea scenes. Much of the celluloid contained beauteous impressions of the realities of marine life.
"Even if only a portion of that film is used," an official of the company told me, "it could hardly be said that the expedition was in vain. The experience, too, was more than valuable to us, and furnished the foundation
for what we have
incased in these strange suits,
prepare to investigate the kingdom under the sea.
since accomplished."
You may remember that the company met with most disastrous storms while in the Bahamas, which destroyed equipment, wrecked boats, and caused other heavy loss. So relentless this setback had seemed at the time, work on the picture was not resumed until last September, and it looked for a while as if "The Mysterious Island" was by way of becoming as much of a Jonah as "Ben-Hur," only more appropriately a Jonah, considering the rather maritime experiences of that estimable personage.
When work was started again on "The Mysterious Island," it was on a new basis,
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