A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Major Roup as an underwater creature. Photograph: Jim Roup collection.

Cast: Lionel Barrymore [Count Andre Dakkar], Jane Daly [Sonia], Lloyd Hughes [Nikolai], Montagu Love [Falon], Harry Gribbon [Mikhail], Snitz Edwards [Anton], Gibson Gowland [Dmitry], Dolores Brinkman [Teresa], Major Roup [an underwater creature]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Screenplay by Lucien Hubbard, from the novel L’ile mystérieuse [The Mysterious Island] by Jules Verne. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Technical effects by James Basevi, Louis H. Tolhurst and Irving R. Ries. Cinematography by Percy Hilburn. Recording engineer, Douglas Shearer. Film editor, Carl L. Pierson. Music score by Martin Broones and Arthur Lange. / © 20 October 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP799]. Released 5 October 1929. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The novel was previously filmed as L’ile mystérieuse (1905). / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama: Science fiction.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 16 October 2020.

References: Website-AFI : with additional information provided by Jim Roup.

Home video: DVD.