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The Fabulous World of Jules Verne(1958)
Status: Released
Date: 1958-08-22
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86 Votes
Time: 1h 23m
Fantastic Pedal Blimps Fly The Skies! - Four-Footed Machines In Incredible Sea Battle!
Overview:
As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.
Languages: Czech.
Countries:
Czechoslovakia
ProductionCompanies:
Krátký film Praha – Studio loutkového filmu Gottwaldov
Movie: The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Top 10 Billed Cast
Lubor Tokoš
Šimon Hart
Jana Zatloukalová
Jana
Miloslav Holub
Count Artigas
Otto Šimánek
The Man on the Train
František Řehák
Václav Babka
Alena Kreuzmannová
Jana (voice)
Video Trailer The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Video: Karel Zeman: Invention for Destruction - distribution trailer of the digitally restored film
Karel Zeman: Invention for Destruction - distribution trailer of the digitally restored film
John Landis on THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE
All 2 videos
Karel Zeman: Invention for Destruction - distribution trailer of the digitally restored film - Trailer
John Landis on THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE - Featurette
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