1954’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Based on the novel by Jules Verne, the film follows Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, a sailor on a ship that falls prey to a rumored sea monster, only to end up ...

By Jack Moffitt On Dec. 23, 1954, Disney-Buena Vista unveiled 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at ... be a recently discovered sea monster. And of how a United States ship of war, the Abraham Lincoln ...

I have only the vaguest of memories of Walt Disney World’s old 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage ride ... into on one of the underwater ships that used to take Walt Disney World ...

Seven decades later, then-tentpoles like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth are still showing us why the genre remains among the screen’s most popular.