The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.6/10   

Director:

Eugène Lourié

Escritores:

Ray Bradbury (story)
Fred Freiberger (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

13 junio 1953 (USA)

Género:

Ciencia-Ficción | Horror

Frase comercial:

It's alive !

Plot:

A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and ultimately New York City.

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Rhedosaurus | New York | Arctic | Dinosaur

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Hail, Hail Harryhausen! Sat.matinee/morning tv classic!

Reparto

Paul Hubschmid	...	Professor Tom Nesbitt (as Paul Christian)
Paula Raymond	...	Lee Hunter
Cecil Kellaway	...	Prof. Thurgood Elson
Kenneth Tobey	...	Col. Jack Evans
Donald Woods	...	Capt. Phil Jackson
Lee Van Cleef	...	Cpl. Stone
Steve Brodie	...	Sgt. Loomis
Ross Elliott	...	George Ritchie
Jack Pennick	...	Jacob Bowman
Ray Hyke	...	Sgt. Willistead
Michael Fox	...	ER Doctor
Alvin Greenman	...	1st Radar Man
Frank Ferguson	...	Dr. Morton
King Donovan	...	Dr. Ingersoll
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Vera Miles	...	Announcer in trailer (scenes deleted)
Paul Picerni	...	Announcer in trailer (scenes deleted)

También conocida como:

Monster from Beneath the Sea (USA) (working title)
El monstruo de tiempos remotos (Spain) [es]
El monstruo del mar (Mexico) [es]

Duración:

80 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Negro y Blanco (Sepiatone)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #16143, General Audience) | West Germany:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Jack Dietz Productions

Trivialidades:

Some film aficionados might recognize Alvin Greenman, the first character to speak after the narrator, and the first to notice the beast on on the radar. Six years earlier he played Alfred, the Macys Janitor in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). TV aficionados though might recognize the second character to speak. Playing the part of Charlie is actor James Best, best remembered for his role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane from _"The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979)_.

Errores:

Errores cometidos por los personajes (posiblemente errores deliberados por los cineastas): Character refers to the "Loch Lomond monster" when he almost certainly meant the "Loch Ness monster" (there being no famous monster in Loch Lomond).

Citas:

Radio Operator: New York is like a city besieged.A state of emergency has been delcared... and the entire police force put on 24-hour duty. Civilian defense is fully mobolized... and shelters have been opened in an effort to stop the mounting hysteria. All traffic has been halted. And Times Square, the heart of New York, has stopped beating. The National Guard has been called out, fully armed. to repell the invader.This is full-scale war against a terrible enemy...

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992)

Hail, Hail Harryhausen! Sat.matinee/morning tv classic!

THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953) **1/2 Better than average giant monster on the rampage flick about a dinosaur awakened by atomic testing in the Arctic with the usual death and destruction. Based on a short story by sci-fi author Ray Bradbury. Satisfactory stop-motion animation by special effects icon Ray Harryhausen and look sharp for Lee Van Cleef at the film's climax at Coney Island (!) **real trivia nugget: Van Cleef's future co-star Clint Eastwood also had a similar role in the '50s big bug run amok classic "Tarantula" where he was the pilot of the bomber plane that wipes out the awesome arachnid.