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Overview
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Writers:
Paul Gangelin (writer)
Samuel Newman (writer)
Release Date:
June 1957 (USA) more
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Flying beast out of prehistoric skies!
Plot:
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture. full summary | add synopsis
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Lots of fun to watch if you aren't too serious about it. more (62 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Jeff Morrow | ... | Mitchell 'Mitch' MacAfee |
| Mara Corday | ... | Sally Caldwell |
| Morris Ankrum | ... | Lt. Gen. Edward Considine |
| Louis Merrill | ... | Pierre Broussard (as Louis D. Merrill) |
| Edgar Barrier | ... | Dr. Karol Noymann |
| Robert Shayne | ... | Gen. Van Buskirk |
| Frank Griffin | ... | Pete, pilot (as Ruell Shayne) |
| Clark Howat | ... | Maj. Bergen |
| Morgan Jones | ... | Lieutenant, Radar Officer |
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The Mark of the Claw (USA) (working title)
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75 min
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In 1957, Columbia Pictures theatrically distributed this film on a double bill with The Night the World Exploded (1957). more
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Errors in geography: As the plane carrying the meson cannon flies towards the bird (who is on top of the United Nations building in New York City), the footage of the plane shows it over San Francisco. more
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Sally:
Oh, nothing so domestic as a flying saucer, officer. Just a flying Battleship.
Police Officer:
Well, have a good time with your flying Battleship.
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Featured in Fantastic Fantasy Fright-o-Rama Show Vol. 1 (1996) (V) more
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A nice remembrance from childhood watching this one Saturday evening at my cousins place in Brooklyn. Probably a WOR channel 9 creature feature, but definitely one of the schlockiest of their stock. Still, what really sets these old 50s monster B and C flicks apart from today's low-rent stuff is the great seriousness of the characters and their delivery done with earnest. This style is standard fare from low-budget Corman through the cheapo AIP and Columbia stuff, and this is what makes these lesser efforts with poor quality effects rise to a level that makes them as enjoyable as the grade A Universal-International and 20th Century Fox sci-fi stuff.