Koby9

Lost brain cells. I can't believe I spent 2 hours watching this garbage. A terrible movie in everything. Only for "smart critics" who think they found something interesting in this nonsense fairy tale.

When Richard Fleischer was directing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea he came up against a few problems. One of these involved filming Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre being attacked by a shark.

"Since there's no way to work in the water with a live shark, the plan was to catch and kill one, then hook it up to a cable system so it could be pulled down through the water like a dive bomber. Everyone on the crew had a suggestion about how to kill a shark. The consensus was that you had to whack it very hard between the eyes with a ball peen hammer to kill its brain."

From the audio commentary of the Criterion release:

• Locusts were glued to the wheat.
• Animal rights people let you do that?
• They weren't around.

A huge amount of locusts were caught with a net attached to a jeep, for the scene in which they invade the crops and the workers try to get them away. They were glued to the wheat and a fire then ensues and you can see them getting burnt for a piece of art, filming the fire went out of controll causing more damage.

This movie is probably a masterpiece, its cinematography is one from the bests, however my rating is lower due to what they did for filming it.