Behemoth the Sea Monster (1959)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.3/10   

Directors:

Douglas Hickox
Eugène Lourié

Escritores (WGA):

Robert Abel (story) &
Alan J. Adler (story) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 marzo 1959 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Fantasía | Horror | Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

The Biggest Thing Since Creation!

Plot:

Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Dinosaur | Radiation | Electric Shock | Radioactive Shell

Comentarios de los usuarios:

One of the last films Willis O'Brien made, but it isn't a very good movie

Reparto

Gene Evans	...	Steve Karnes
André Morell	...	Professor James Bickford
John Turner	...	John
Leigh Madison	...	Jean Trevethan
Jack MacGowran	...	Dr. Sampson, the Paleontologist
Maurice Kaufmann	...	Mini Submarine Officer
Henri Vidon	...	Tom Trevethan
Leonard Sachs	...	Scientist

También conocida como:

Behemoth
The Giant Behemoth (USA)

Duración:

80 min

País:

UK | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Norway:16 | USA:Unrated | UK:X (original rating)

Locaciones de Filmación:

London, England, UK

Compañía:

Artistes Alliance Ltd.

Trivialidades:

The puppet of the behemoth is owned by Dennis Muren.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: When the behemoth is pushing the ferry, the supporting, floating platform that the model of the monster was nailed to, can be seen at the left side of the frame.

Citas:

Steve Karnes: [solemnly] One thing is sure. Something has happened here that isn't in the book. Something came out of the ocean and now has gone back into.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Fantastic Fantasy Fright-o-Rama Show Vol. 1 (1996) (V)

One of the last films Willis O'Brien made, but it isn't a very good movie

Giant radioactive monsters, while apparently preferring Tokyo, do occasionally attack other major cities, whether they be San Francisco in It Came from Beneath the Sea, or London, as in this movie. This one, called the behemoth, I think is referred to as a plesiosaur but looks more apatosaurus-like. The Giant Behemoth, aka Behemoth the Sea Monster, is your average monster-attacks-city movie. It spends an inordinate amount of time on people jabbering along, scientists trying to figure out what gave dead people radiation burns, et cetera, et cetera. By the time I started nodding off, the monster makes his first appearance, and looks kind of like a piñata. Later it comes on land and is a stop-motion effect. This was Willis O'Brien's penultimate film. At this point, O'Brien and his techniques had been surpassed by those of his student, Ray Harryhausen. The behemoth looks not much better than the dinosaurs of the silent The Lost World. Still, I quite like it. There's just something about stop-motion effects that charms me. But these effects are too few and far between to make the movie worth anything.