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It's No "Love Island" When Martians – and a Half-Android Astronaut- Clash in Puerto Rico When "Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster"

Tonight on MeTV- we are happy to bring you a science fiction tale from the great Jules Verne- as escapees from a Confederate Army prison hijack a wayward balloon that brings them to a far-off place with amazing and deadly creatures (courtesy of the master of stop-motion Ray Harryhausen) and an encounter with a legendary master of the sea! It’s the 1961 film that is actually the sequel to two previous Jules Verne stories- welcome to the “Mysterious Island”!

We begin our story at a military prison in Richmond, Virginia- where Union soldiers and war correspondent Gideon Spillet manage to break free from their cell take command of a rebel gas balloon, along with a Confederate soldier...

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