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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] fantasy sub picture
On Sunday, Apr 13, 2003, at 09:35 US/Central, Gary R. Boucher wrote:
> I remember when I was about 12 or 13 years old (say around 1963)
> going to the only theater in my home town of Springhill, LA to see a
> movie that was about one half cartoon and the other half actors and
> sets. The movie was about old submarines, fantasy in nature. ....
I tried searching IMDB for "submarine" in the plot descriptions. (Odd:
I don't know why I haven't tried that before.) There were a lot, and
maybe I didn't read carefully, but I didn't find anything that sounded
like your movie. One possibility is that it was dubbed from Japanese -
a few of the ones I didn't look at because I was getting bored had
Japanese-sounding titles.
However, while I was looking, I did find some amusing and odd things I
hadn't heard of before. Samples:
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Some survivors of a drowning ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his
submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city, where they may be
trapped for the rest of their lives.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/8765/UNDERWATERCITY2.JPG (a
different Nautilus)
Civilization (1916)
into service. A count has constructed a submarine and gets the order
to sink an ocean liner, that is also carrying - supposedly - ammunition
for the enemy. The count refuses to fire the torpedos, and sinks the
submarine. He survives, but in a limbo between death and life where he
meets Jesus, who takes him over to preach peace. Naturally the king
arrests him and sentences him to death for treason, but then Jesus
shows him the real face of war.
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966) (With Dick Van Dyke!)
Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after
engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a
house, finds an abandoned submarine with lots of gadgets that he can
use, and also finds a marooned chimp from the US Space program and a
native girl named Wednesday who was exiled by her father. Wednesday
thinks Crusoe wants to marry her, and when her father arrives on the
island to collect her and Crusoe refused to marry her, chaos ensues.
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David
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Osage, MN, USA
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