Mysterious Island
★ 6.1 · 1941 · 75m · Adventure · Science Fiction
Based on Verne's book The Mysterious Island, five POWs escape from a camp in a balloon during the Civil War and crash-land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Trying to settle with their lives they find someone is helping them.
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