Il padrone del mondo

Titolo originale: Master of the World
Regia: William Witney |
Anno: 1961
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Fantascienza Avventura
Tag: inventor | jules verne | world domination | dirigible |
Cast: Vincent Price | Charles Bronson | Mary Webster | Henry Hull | David Frankham | Wally Campo | Vito Scotti | Richard Harrison | Ken Terrell | Steve Masino | Peter Besbas | Gordon Jones | Harry 'Snub' Pollard |

Verso la metà del secolo scorso un'inaccessibile montagna della Pennsylvania ha improvvise eruzioni e manifestazioni misteriose che terrorizzano la popolazione. Un gruppo di ricerca penetra nel cratere e vi trova un tiranno che domina la montagna con una nave da guerra navigante nel mare interno e con una astronave.

Errori

During the Egyptian battle, the ground shots show a cloudless sky but when Robur is dropping bombs [...] D
Robur may not have been as well educated as he puts on. He named his flying ship the "Albatross", a [...] D
At about the 17 minute mark the smudge on Henry Hull's (Prudent) forehead suddenly is darker. [...] D
In the control room and Robur's cabin, the views through the windows on either side are inexplicabl [...] D
The British fleet that Robur is bombing consists of ships-of-the-line that date from the late 1700s [...] D
When Price comes to Bronson's bunk to discuss his joining with him, his hand rests on the railing n [...] D
Many of the scenes of the African battle are seen by Robur from angles clearly impossible from an a [...] D
Although Irish "home rule" was an issue in the Victorian era of the movie, it was still wholly part [...] D
As Strock and Evans dangle from the Albatross somewhere between Ireland and England, they are dragg [...] D
Whilst doing repairs after a bombing run and removing the damaged "lifting" blades, one of the crew [...] D
Robur's ship flies over a battle being waged in the African desert. When he looks through his scope [...] D
Although the Albatross can fly forwards and can ascend, descend, or hover, it is never explained no [...] D
Just before the warship is bombed, Robur observes it through the scope. The view shown of an approa [...] D
The shot of the "warship" from sea level is actually Fred MacMurray's ship, the "Gerrymander" from [...] D
When the sailor accosts Charles Bronson and his party in their stateroom, his pistol switches posit [...] D
The Albatross purports to take on water without landing, by dropping a pipe and sucking the water u [...] D
John Struck is shown starting to go down the anchor rope with bare hands. But in the next shot of h [...] D
Robur dangles Strock and Evans from the Albatross dirigible on ropes as a punishment. A storm comes [...] D
The amount of wood needed to keep Prudent's balloon aloft would more than fill the gondola and leav [...] D
The film is set in the 1800s, though as the Albatross flies over London, Robur looks through the sc [...] D
At about the 1' 25" mark when Charles Bronson comes out of a door onto the deck to help with the po [...] D
Robur's men use single-fire flintlock pistols. Yet the film is set in 1868, three years after the A [...] D
At a distance, the American sailing ship they attack clearly has no gun ports from which to fire ca [...] D