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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

Cast

Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey View All


Crew

Eugène Lourié (Director), Lou Morheim (Screenplay), Fred Freiberger (Screenplay) View All

Release: Jun. 13th, 1953
Runtime: 1 hour, 20 minutes
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.
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3 Anyone else seen The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms?
This movie predates Godzilla, and I think it's actually the better film of the two. The special effects were rather strong for their time. The dinosaur in this film looks better than Godzilla, who i...
0 Fathoms deep
There's this movie too. I subscribed to their Facebook and they're having a premiere on the 13th on Downtown LA if anyone's near by. It's at the Downtown Independent Theater. AND IT'S FREE!!! ...
0 Oh you beast
A woman I think said this in a move "Oh, you beast" after the bad guy did something awful. She said it very badly. Totally flat, without emotion, like she was reading it from a cue card for ...
8 Beauty and the Beast
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1 Youth of the Beast
Youth of the Beast Seijun Suzuki is one of the more polarizing and ambiguous figures in Japanese cinema. Genius? Madman? Something in between? Perhaps it doesn't matter, the differences between t...

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Torgo
The practical effects of the building destruction in this scene and others like the one with the lighthouse deserve praise as well as prove that the real thing is no substitute for CGI.
Thief
That is how physicist Thomas Nesbitt (Paul Christian) sums up another scientist skeptical reaction to the alleged appearance of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, a prehistoric dinosaur awakened by a nuclear bomb test.


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