Amo del mundo / Master of the world (1961)

http://www.jverne.net Película protagonizada por Vincent Price y Charles Bronson, basada las novelas de verne: "Robur el conquistador" y "Amo del mundo". Sinópsis: En 1848, en un pueblecito del Medio Oeste americano nada sucede, hasta que un día de la montaña cercana comienza a manar un resplandor rojizo y surge una voz atronadora proclamando citas bíblicas. Un agente del gobierno contrata el servicio de dos inventores, quienes han desarrollado un globo motorizado, para sobrevolar el monte e investigar: el fabricante de municiones Prudence (Henry Hull) y Philip (David Frankham). Les acompaña la joven Dorothy (María Webster), hija de Prudence y prometida de Philip, y el piloto taciturno Strock (Charles Bronson). Poco después, algo les dispara y caen, y cuando recuperan el sentido están cautivos a bordo del Albatros, una revolucionaria aeronave creada por el brillante, pero desequilibrado Robur (Vincent Price). Robur les explica que es un hombre de paz, y que utiliza su enorme dirigible con el fin de persuadir a los líderes del mundo que cesen sus guerras, sin que le importe que algunas personas inocentes mueran en el proceso. Siguiendo con sus idelaes, Robur ataca ubicaciones militares estratégicas como París, Madrid y África del Norte. Para evitar que continue la matanza, Prudence renuncia a sus inventos. Sin embargo, los secuestrados planean la destrucción del Albatros arriesgando sus propias vidas.

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Film & Animation

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• Amo del mundo
• Master of the world
• Julio Verne
• Jules Verne
• Vincent Price
• Charles Bronson
• Albatros
• Robur

[flapdoodle64]

This movie is the true beginning of steampunk. It is pure awesomeness, better than the modern scifi with Will Smith and Tom Cruise.

[Gojira1985]

's like an aerial version of 20,000 Leagues! Unwilling guests on an amazing machine commanded by a scientist who has some vendetta against man kind

[pulpculture]

@mukatuna It's an AIP film. AIP tended to use whatever stock footage they could get.

[pulpculture]

@Cooloski A manufacture-on-demand DVD-R is coming out from MGM/Fox. That's for sale at the usual online retailers, like the one named for the big river in Brazil (hint, hint).

[pulpculture]

@Humbertusmarius Models? You're probably assuming too much. More likely, the producers had stock footage. This is an America Independent Pictures film, after all.

[loufalce]

@Humbertusmarius ...I noticed the same thing! Definately ships of Nelsons era, one even looks like the HMS victory. I think these scenes came from "That Hamilton Woman"-a film about Nelson and Lady Hamilton that was made in the late 1930s. The "tell" is that the color of this sequence does not match the color in the rest of the movie.

[DrifterRebel]

nothing like the ship in the comic



[Megapolitano]

I have no doubt someone will edit this as a film trailer to Bioshock Infinite.

[TheDarkshadow427]

it is also like 20 000 leagues under the sea

[leftcoast67]

Wonder how Price felt when Bronson goes on to make "The Great Escape" and he got stuck playing in horror movies...

[oancitizen]

@mukatuna I had this hunch about the Globe, which I confirmed with a quick wikipedia check. The London shot with the Globe was reused footage from Laurence Olivier's 1944 adaptation of Henry V, which uses the shot in its opening.

So it was just cheap editing. The rest, I suppose, is bad design.