![]() ![]() The group find themselves at the mercy of the weather and float far out at sea with no idea of where they are. During a massive storm they capture the balloon along with a Confederate guard (Pencroft) who asks for his life to be spared in exchange for instructing the Union soldiers on how to control the balloon. As the American Civil War rages on, four Union prisoners (Cyrus Harding, Herbert Brown, Neb and Gideon Spillet - the last mentioned being a Union war correspondent having just arrived to the prison) plan to escape the violence using a Confederate hydrogen gas balloon kept in their prison camp. During the Late 1860s, Union Armies prepare to siege the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. The Prisoners Escape in a hot air balloon. Ray Harryhausen incorporated gigantic creatures in the movie, including the prehistoric Phorusrhacos, the legendary giant crab, as well as a giant prehistoric Cephalopod. Mysterious Island was a 1961 film based on the book written by Jules Verne. ![]()
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