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June 1957 (USA) moreTagline:
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 synopsisUser Comments:
Lots of fun to watch if you aren't too serious about it. moreCast
(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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USA:UnratedFun Stuff
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Some of the better special effects are recycled from Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: As Mitch's plane goes into a power dive, it briefly moves backwards as the model wires get stuck. moreQuotes:
Gen. Van Buskirk: Three men reported they saw something. Two of them are now dead.Mitch MacAfee: That makes me Chief Cook and Bottle Washer in a one-man Bird Watcher's Society!
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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.