Hope you’ve all been enjoying the holidays, albeit with some necessary modifications and perhaps a few compromises. Not to proselytize, but if we all do the right thing, hopefully this year will soon be little more than an unpleasant memory.

Be that as it may, in this season of merriment, Roy and I will conclude 2020 on a low note – and isn’t that saying something? – with an “in-depth” discussion of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (1954).

This whale of a tale features Kirk Douglas as the swashbuckling Ned Land, James Mason as a brooding Captain Nemo, and a 40-foot squid as the ultimate metaphor for that great leveler, COVID. Land sings a saucy sea shanty about his affairs with loose women, and Nemo plays Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor (of course) on an organ in his decked-out submarine. Gotta love vintage Disney.

Peter Lorre and Paul Lukas are along for the ride, in this intelligent family classic that’s refreshingly free of flatulence jokes.

I hope you’ll join us for a hearty good riddance to 2020, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Leave your comments in the captain’s log as we live-stream on Facebook, this Sunday evening at 7:00 EST.

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It’s all true… I swear by my tattoo!