Saugatuck Red Barn Theatre Presents Movie Night

Film: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea


Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Start Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Red Barn Theatre

Category: Saugatuck & Douglas Events

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The Red Barn Theater’s film attraction for December 6 is 1954’s ’20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,’ reckoned by many as the best live action film made by Walt Disney during his lifetime.

Directed by Richard Fleischer and starring an outstanding cast led by Kirk Douglas, James Mason, and Peter Lorre, the lavish production fulfills Disney’s longstanding (since 1940) ambition to make a film of the Jules Verne novel. He originally wanted to make a full-length cartoon, but wisely decided to go for a convincing live production.

Verne’s plot takes takes the audience throughout the globe and under the sea as Mason as Captain Nemo fights man’s lust for power and riches that leads inevitably to war. Disney’s studio captured the naval and scientific advances of the late Nineteenth Century very credibly, mixing in Verne’s vision for what we know as atomic power.

Notices for the film were almost universally favorable. Variety called it "very special," and praised the actors, but said “it is the production itself that is the star. Technical skill was lavished in fashioning the fabulous Nautilus with its exquisitely appointed interior. The underwater lensing is remarkable on a number of counts, among them being the special designing of aqualungs and other equipment to match Verne's own illustrations." The Los Angeles Times noted that “nearly everyone should find the voyage exhilarating."

And Jack Moffitt in the Hollywood Reporter said "the production abounds in belly laughs and spine tingling thrills, set forth with an all-important air of plausibility."

Join host John Hardy at 7 p.m. in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn from CNJ Popcorn Co. and $1 concessions. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net

Location Details

Red Barn Theatre
63RD & Blue Star Hwy.
Saugatuck Mi 49453

Location Phone: 269-857-5300