A 1969 British Science Fiction Adventure directed by James Hill that has the Captain Nemo (Robert Ryan) taking the passengers of a doomed ship to his underwater city but soon finds out some don't want to be there.
The movie also stars Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, Luciana Paluzzi, John Turner, Bill Fraser, Kenneth Connor, Allan Cuthbertson, and Christopher Hartstone.
It was released on December 19, 1969.
Tropes for the film:
- Alliterative Name: Barnaby Bath.
- Character Title: Captain Nemo and the Underwater City.
- City of Gold: The city of Templemere has almost everything made of gold because they get it from refining sea water, and a huge room is full of used gold items, which are basically junk as gold is so plentiful it's valueless.
- The Film of the Book: Based on Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
- Sinister Stingrays: The once-peaceful, if abnormally large, stingray under the seas, which mutates into kaiju proportions after being exposed to radiation leakage from an underwater nuclear power plant.
- Tagline: "They tried to leave the golden city with the most valuable prize of all - their lives!".
- This Is What the Building Will Look Like: Captain Nemo shows the rest of the main characters that the amazing Steampunk Underwater City that they have been admiring through the whole film is just the first phase of a large compound, with a model to give proper scale (the new city, already starting construction, is approximately twice as big).
- Underwater City: A group of shipwrecked people encountering Captain Nemo, who has developed several advanced submarines aside from the Nautilus and has created an underwater city, Templemer, for his crewmen and their families.
