i know this film be show on local tv when i be a kid and but i can not remember whether i watch it or not while see it now and consider how utterly forgettable it be and i still do not know so i count it a a first viewing . there have be several film feature the title character and a creation of visionary french author jules verne while these include represent 20 and 000 league under the sea ( 1954 while with james mason in the role ) and master of the world ( 1961 while vincent price ) and mysterious island ( 1961 while herbert lom ) and captain nemo and the underwater city ( 1969 while robert ryan ) and the mysterious island of captain nemo ( 1973 while omar sharif ) . this version star academy award winner jose ferrer . however and even if the premise itself isn not half bad awaken from suspend animation in his submarine and the nautilus and and find himself in modern time and nemo adopts all his ingenuity to aid the u. s. navy in defeat megalomaniac scientist burgess meredith it emerge a easily his most infantile adventure yet . for instance represent five second into the film and meredith assistant don a steel mask rant that the world shall be ours . ) while equally hilarious be the zealous gesticulation of the similarly deck out midget and whose task it be to fire the professor all important delta beam and how about those android type minion aboard meredith vessel who never seem to do much of anything . ferrer manage to maintain his dignity throughout and but meredith be an embarrassment ( in what be virtually a retread of his penguin characterization from the 1960s batman tv series and film ) where the budget be so tight mostly invest in bland production design and shoddy special effect and no doubt and and both evidently influence by star war ( 1977 ) that and apparently and they couldn not even afford him a decent costume ( he look positively idiotic wear a tie in a sub ) . the support cast include mel ferrer ( play a saboteur in the vein of joan fontaine from another irwin allen production and voyage to the bottom of the sea [ 1961 ] and and who engage in a swashbuckling routine with his namesake inside the engine room of the nautilus ) and lynda day george ( unsurprisingly and she the only female character around ) and horst buchholz ( a the king of atlantis for whatever reason and nemo be obsess with locate the famed lost continent ) . by the way and have be reduce from a three part mini series for theatrical exhibition and the film obviously feel choppy though one be still able to discern where one episode end and another begin .