A serial from the 50s!!!

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND SERIAL(1951)

While this has almost no resemblence to
the Jules Verne classic story, it is quite
entertaining! B+

From IMDb.com:

The trick is to forget all that you know
about past versions of Mysterious Island
and go into this with an open mind. It can
be a struggle as I only know the colourful
1961 motion picture, with that mighty
Bernard Herrmann music playing over it,
so getting that out of my mind was hard.
But anyway, the review...

This is not too bad at all, if you have
no problem with watching men walk, walk
and run, run around an island. We get a
lot of that. But famed 60s science fiction
TV producer - Irwin Allen - rooted a lot
of his work (Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea, The Time Tunnel, Land Of The Giants,
etc) on serials and you can just picture
Allen watching Mysterious Island (1951)
and taking notes.

Hidden caves with aliens inside, an erupting
volcano, almost zero characterisation,
grim faced determination, over-the-top
alien costumes, pinching music cues from
other studio productions (in this case
Columbia's Batman and Robin), etc. It
is all here and a lot turned up in
Irwin Allen TV as well.

If you have no interest in the Allen
connection, I would still tune in anyway,
but don't even think about watching the
whole four or five hours in one viewing.
After one hour I needed a 24 hour rest
from it. I would suggest one hour a
night. - StuOz