The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
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| The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | |
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| Directed by | Eugène Lourié |
| Produced by | Jack Dietz |
| Written by | Fred Freiberger Eugène Lourié Louis Morheim Robert Smith from a story by Ray Bradbury |
| Starring | Paul Christian Paula Raymond Cecil Kellaway Kenneth Tobey |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
| Cinematography | Jack Russell |
| Editing by | Bernard W. Burton |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | 1953 |
| Running time | 80 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a black and white 1953 science fiction film directed by Eugène Lourié. The film's shooting title was Monster from Beneath the Sea. When The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, a short story by Ray Bradbury was published in The Saturday Evening Post, the producers were reminded by someone that both works share a similar theme of prehistoric sea monster. The producers who wished to share Bradbury's reputation and popularity, bought the right to Bradbury's story and changed the film's title. Bradbury then changed the title of his story to The Fog Horn. The monster of the film was based on the illustration of The Saturday Evening Post.<ref>Jeff Rovin. The Encyclopedia of Monsters. New York:Facts on File, 1989.</ref>
The dinosaur skeleton in the museum sequence is artificial; it was obtained from storage at RKO Pictures where it had been constructed for Bringing up Baby (1938).
Creature effects by Ray Harryhausen.
As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a fictional carnivorous dinosaur known as the rhedosaurus thaws out of the ice and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. It arrives in New York where it manages to destroy most of Coney Island before finally being killed.
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[edit] Cast
- Paul Hubschmid – as Professor Tom Nesbitt (as Paul Christian)
- Paula Raymond – as Lee Hunter
- Cecil Kellaway – as Prof. Thurgood Elson
- Kenneth Tobey – as Col. Jack Evans
- Lee Van Cleef – as sharpshooter
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[edit] External links
- The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms at the Internet Movie Database
- Suite of the film score re-recorded on "Monstrous Movie Music" label (sound samples available)
- Ray Harryhausen: The Beast Master Speaks
