20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - 1954

Basic Info

Titles: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Movie medium: Live Action

Movie Genre: science fiction, adventure, drama, action

Source Material: Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, the film was directed by Richard Fleischer, from a screenplay by Earl Felton.

Date first released: 23rd Dec 1954

Produced by: Walt Disney Productions

Critical Reception and Box Office Success: Critical reception was great with high praise and was a great box office success.

Facts

• During its opening weekend, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea opened in second place at the box office behind There's No Business Like Show Business (1954). On its third weekend, the film became the number-one box office film in the United States, displacing Vera Cruz (1954). It was dethroned by Vera Cruz on its fourth weekend, but the film reclaimed the number-one position on its fifth weekend. By January 1956, the film had earned $8 million in distributor rentals at the box office from the United States and Canada, becoming the third highest-grossing film of 1954. Another account put its initial rentals in the US and Canada at $6,607,000.
• Won Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects awards at the 27th Academy Awards in 1955.
• Was one of the first feature-length motion pictures to be filmed in CinemaScope.
• It was Disney's first feature film to be distributed by Buena Vista Distribution (US).
• Laurie Mitchell made her debut (uncredited) in this movie as Hooker.
• This movie was filmed at locations in The Bahamas and Jamaica, with the cave scenes filmed beneath what is now the Xtabi Resort on the cliffs of Negril. Other scenes were photographed in Nassau, Lyford Cay (where the 1916 version was filmed), and Death Valley. According to the two-disc DVD documentary, the scenes in San Francisco at the beginning were filmed at Universal Studios while most of the modeling shots were done at 20th Century Fox.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20,000_Leagues_Under_the_Sea_(1954_film)