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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) 6.6
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and ultimately New York City. Director:Eugène Lourié |
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Cast
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Prof. Tom Nesbitt
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Paula Raymond | ... |
Lee Hunter
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Cecil Kellaway | ... |
Prof. Thurgood Elson
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Col. Jack Evans
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Donald Woods | ... |
Capt. Phil Jackson
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Corp. Stone
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Steve Brodie | ... |
Sgt. Loomis
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Ross Elliott | ... |
George Ritchie
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Jack Pennick | ... |
Jacob Bowman
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Ray Hyke | ... |
Sgt. Willistead
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Paula Hill | ... |
Miss Nelson
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Michael Fox | ... |
ER Doctor
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Alvin Greenman | ... |
First Radar Man
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Frank Ferguson | ... |
Dr. Morton
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King Donovan | ... |
Dr. Ingersoll
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As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, only witness to the beast's existence, is not believed, even when he identifies it as a "rhedosaurus" to paleontologist Thurgood Elson. All doubts disappear, however, when Elson is swallowed whole during an oceanic bathysphere excursion to search for the creature. Soon thereafter the rhedosaurus emerges from the sea and lays waste to Manhattan Island until Nesbitt comes up with a plan to try to stop the seemingly indestructible beast. Written by Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
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Country:
USARelease Date:
13 June 1953 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Monster from Beneath the Sea See more »Box Office
Budget:
$210,000 (estimated)Gross:
$5,000,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Opening Narrator: This is Operation Experiment, a secret base far north of the Arctic Circle. Experiment was the codename for a top priority scientific expedition. These men arrived here on X-day minus 60. It has taken them the full two months to get ready. Today is X-day.
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Trivia
Some of the Arctic footage showing an avalanche triggered by movements of the Beast was "lifted" from the 1935 production of "She." See more »Goofs
The aircraft shown in the beginning approaching the bomb drop is a Douglas DC-3. The speed announced by the person tracking the plane's progress is 350 mph. The top speed of the DC3 in 1953 (without modern modifications) was 200 mph. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Opening Narrator: This is Operation Experiment, a secret base far north of the Arctic Circle. Experiment was the codename for a top priority scientific expedition. These men arrived here on X-day minus 60. It has taken them the full two months to get ready. Today is X-day.
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To hell with over-budgeted movies like Jurassic Park, Godzilla, Reign of Fire and God knows which others...Sure you can watch those with your mouth wide wide open wondering what great computer specialists are behind this but...where's the LOVE ??? If you're looking for charming monster films, turn back your clock towards the 50's. Without a doubt the greatest decade for movies like this. Tons of movies like this one were made back then but every single title was made with a lot of love. Them! , the Swarm and the Giant Spider Invasion are probably the best known ones. The Beast from 20.000 Fathoms handles about a ... dinosaur !!! A rethosaurus, aged one million years, comes to live again. It got frozen during the change of the eras and now, because of the enormous heat of a nuclear experiment, it's back . The creature ( about as big as a skyscraper ) goes directly into the ocean. He attacks a few boats and the people who claimed to have seen him are called crazy in the beginning...( can you blame them ? ). But, when our dinosaur sets foot in New York, the city faces the biggest terror it ever saw. The Beast is definitely not the best monster movie coming from the 50's, but still. If you admire the older days of cinema more as well, you'll love it a hell of a lot more than then nowadays stuff. The creature is well made, but it shouldn't move too much. The fight shown between the shark and the octopus is really impressive, that must be said. The ants in Them! were a lot more real, but hey, this fella is ten times as big. Lovely B-movie fun