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Ah! when you care enough to send the very best. Tonight from Hollywood,

the makers of Hallmark greeting cards

bring you Louis Jourdan

in 20,000 leagues under the sea

on the Hallmark Playhouse.

Each week, Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best-known authors.

The distinguished novelist, Mr. James Hooper.

Thank you. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton.

I wonder whether there was one book which you read when you were quite young

that you still remember with special affection.

The story we dramatize on our Hallmark Playhouse tonight

is one I could say this about in my own life.

It's Jules Verne's 20,000 leagues under the sea.

It was, as I remember, just the sort of story to excite a boy

who was born into this 20th century of scientific adventure.

And when I reread it a short time ago,

it held for me something of the same old fascination. Jules Verne, who, you could say, was really

one of the pioneers of science fiction, never did anything better than 20,000 leagues under

the sea. And of all his novels, it's probably the one which for us today has a thoroughly

modern ring.

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