Overview: Awakened from a 100-year cryogenic freeze, the legendary Captain Nemo (Academy Award® winner* José Ferrer) pursues a mad scientist (Burgess Meredith) who threatens to destroy Washington unless he’s paid a billion dollars in gold.

DVD: The sets of 'The Amazing Captain Nemo' are certainly elaborate in spots, and the film is filled with the usual campy excitement and action. The story is hardly breathtaking and the costumes are ridiculously cheap. The robotic characters wear clumsy plastic masks and you can even see the operators lips movie beneath the mouth. Even worse, the effects pale in comparison to other TV shows of the era.

The cast, with the exception of José Ferrer who stars as our title hero Captain Nemo, is frustratingly wooden. Our primary villain, a mad scientist, is flatly portrayed by Burgess Meredith (a fine actor in his day) who wears an oversized, fuzzy, greyish button down sweater and a slanky, loosely knotted black tie throughout the film!

The story, which follows a resurrected Captain Nemo as he looks for Atlantis while battling a mad scientist, melds aspects of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with Star Trek and Star Wars, but it's nothing we haven't seen before. It is a delight seeing Jules Verne's classic character in a modern world, but the show is so mechanical and flat, it never really works as well as it probably should. [RS] This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Features of:

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