Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas
Factual error: The giant squid's tentacles aren't shaped like ones in the real world are.
Factual error: During the undersea trek, a nurse shark goes after Ned and Conseil. Nurse sharks are actually pretty harmless and shy of divers.
Factual error: When they first arrive on the Nautilus, they look out the large porthole and see the crew on the bottom of the ocean burying one of the crew, but the ocean would be much deeper than that, since the Nautilus is at the surface.
Factual error: The giant squid's tentacles aren't shaped like ones in the real world are.
Captain Nemo: Mr. Land, you saved my life. Why?
Ned Land: That's a good question. Well, there's only one thing a fella can do when he's made a mistake as big as this.
Conseil: What?
Ned Land: Get drunk.
Trivia: Legendary actor Charles Grodin has an uncredited bit part as the drummer boy of the ship that gets attacked by the Nautilus.
Question: What did Captain Nemo mean when he said, 'I found out what I wanted to know'?
Answer: To see what kind of men they are, especially Ned Glass. They held on to the sub against the harshness of the ocean. They did not scream, cry, or beg for mercy.