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The First Submarine Photoplay Ever Filmed

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

December 24, 19161h 39mEN
6.1

62 votes

Overview

Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away.

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Streaming availability for India

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Status

Released

Original Language

No Language

Budget

$200K

Revenue

$8.0M

Production Companies

The Universal Film Mfg. Co.

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6.0

Based on Jules Verne's story of revenge, this is actually quite an impressive production that tries pretty hard to deliver a reasonably plausible production of this tale of "Nemo" (Allen Holubar). He has built this magnificent undersea vessel so he can avenge the death of his beloved Princess "Daaker" at the hands of "Denver" (William Welch). Meantime, acclaimed French scientist "Aronnax" (Dan Hanlon) and his daughter (Edna Pendleton) have embarked upon a ship that is sunk by "Nemo" and both of them, as well as harpoonist "Ned Land" (Curtis Benton) are taken on board. Initially as prisoners, b…

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robinh7467

5.0

A very cool production, unfortunately dragged down by whatever the SE Asian term is for blackface. Well worth watching the underwater footage, but skip the rest.

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