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.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Jeff Morrow | ... | Mitch MacAfee | |
| Mara Corday | ... | Sally Caldwell | |
| Morris Ankrum | ... | Lt. Gen. Edward Considine | |
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Louis Merrill | ... | Pierre Broussard (as Louis D. Merrill) |
| Edgar Barrier | ... | Dr. Karol Noymann | |
| Robert Shayne | ... | Gen. Van Buskirk | |
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Frank Griffin | ... | Pete - Pilot (as Ruell Shayne) |
| Clark Howat | ... | Maj. Bergen | |
| Morgan Jones | ... | Lieutenant, Radar Officer | |
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When electronics engineer Mitch MacAfee spots a UFO as "big as a battleship," from his plane, the Air Force scrambles planes to investigate. However, nothing shows up on radar, and one of the jets is lost during the action. MacAfee is regarded as a dangerous crackpot until other incidents and disappearances convince the authorities that the threat is real. Some believe it is a French-Canadian folk legend come to life, but it turns out to be an extraterrestrial giant bird composed of anti-matter whose disregard for human life and architecture threatens the world. Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
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Flying beast out of prehistoric skies!Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
June 1957 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Mark of the Claw See more »Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Mitch MacAfee: I don't know. I honestly haven't the faintest, foggiest idea. It's one of those cockeyed concepts that you pull down out of Cloud Eight somewhere in sheer desperation.
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Screenwriter Samuel Newman re-used the character name "Dr. Karol Noyman" (here played by Edgar Barrier) for an entirely different character played by John Carradine in the 1959 film Invisible Invaders (1959), which Newman also wrote. See more »Goofs
The B-25 heading for the showdown with the bird has twin machine guns in the tail and not the single tube of the anti-anti-matter weapon. (As noted elsewhere, many of the B-25 shots were borrowed from "30 Seconds Over Tokyo".) See more »Quotes
Sally: Will it work, Mitch?Mitch MacAfee: I don't know. I honestly haven't the faintest, foggiest idea. It's one of those cockeyed concepts that you pull down out of Cloud Eight somewhere in sheer desperation.
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This movie is very poor in the standard sense. The plot is warped, the monster is goofy, the science is wrong and the actors are terribly, terribly melodramatic. However, these same things are also what make make the movie good to a bad movie connoisseur like myself. The monster is priceless - it is what makes this particular bad movie stand out over most others. BadMovies.org calls it "A Giant Antimatter Space Buzzard (hehe)" and Andrew is right on target. The serious treatment of the actors towards the ridiculous creature (which they didn't see until the movie was released) combined with the utmost in 1950's pseudo-scientific jargon make this move a classic! This movie is my personal favorite of all b movies. Truly a must-see for the discriminating bad movie goer.