20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Village Roadshow film) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Village Roadshow film) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1997 two-part television miniseries produced by Village Roadshow Pictures, based on the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. It was written by Brian Nelson and directed by Rod Hardy. The "Nautilus" has been sinking and damaging ships and is at first thought to be a giant narwhal. Pierre Aronnax and Ned Land and Cabe Attucks fall off the USS "Abraham Lincoln" and are picked up by the "Nautilus". Pierre Aronnax's father Thierry Aronnax is with the US naval party. Nemo
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film) which Douglas had sung in the movie "Man Without a Star" (written by Lou Singer and Jimmy Kennedy), was the B-side. Both songs can be found on the 2008 digital release of the film's soundtrack. In the film, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" is played by Nemo on the Nautilus's organ, but James Mason's playing is actually dubbed by an anonymous organist. On January 29, 2008, Walt Disney Records released a 26-track digital album containing the music of Paul Smith's original soundtrack score to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" plus both sides of the "A Whale