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Overview

User Rating:
6.3/10   1,761 votes
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Director:

Nathan Juran

Writers:

Robert Creighton Williams (screenplay) &
Christopher Knopf (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

June 1957 (USA) more

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi more

Tagline:

Monster from outerspace runs wild! more

Plot:

The first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows gigantic. full summary | add synopsis

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Better than average more (56 total)


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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The Beast from Space
The Giant Ymir (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)


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Trivia:

Since he planned to use a real elephant for some of the footage in the zoo, Ray Harryhausen asked for one that was 15 feet tall, but the film was only able to procure an eight-foot-tall one for him. In order to make the elephant look much bigger, a 4'6" actor was cast to play the zookeeper. more

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Continuity: Near the beginning when the spaceship starts to sink, the meteor hole starts to go under water. The next shot is from the inside and the hole is still above the waterline. The next shot is outside and the hole is almost covered with water. more

Quotes:

[first lines]
Mondello: Pepe! Is it your desire that the fishes, they swim away? Come on! Pull up on the net, here.
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Featured in Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992) more


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19 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Better than average, 13 August 2003
7/10
Author: henry-girling from London, England

This is a simple enough film. Rocket returning from Venus crashes near Sicily and a foetal thing grows to become a giant lizardy humanoid type thing. The acting is ordinary and the script predictable.

What makes it better than average for a 1950s monster movie is the Ray Harryhausen animated Venusian, called a Ymir here. Photographed in atmospheric black and white, its progress from small caged creature to being loose and dangerous on the streets of Rome and fighting an elephant is engrossing. You can't help rooting for the Ymir, attacked along the way by dogs and soldiers. The Ymir becomes a character like Frankenstein's creation or the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Excellent work by Harryhausen, and far more interesting than the CGI dinosaurs from Spielberg's over praised (and underwhelming) Jurassic Park trilogy.

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