The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a 1953 science fiction giant monster film directed by Eugène Lourié, starring Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway,and Kenneth Tobey, and featuring visual effects by Ray Harryhausen. The story concerns a hibernating dinosaur, the fictional Rhedosaurus, which is released from its frozen state by an an atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle and begins to wreak havoc in New York City. It was one of the first monster movies which helped inspire the following generation of creature features.
Far north of the Arctic Circle, a nuclear bomb test, dubbed "Operation Experiment", is
conducted. Prophetically, right after the blast, physicist Thomas Nesbitt (Paul Christian) muses, "What the cumulative effects of all these atomic explosions and tests will be, only time will tell." Sure enough, the explosion awakens a 10-metre (30 ft) tall, 30-metre (100 ft) long carnivorous diapsid known as the Rhedosaurus, thawing it out of the ice where it had been hibernating for 100 million years. The only witness to the beast's awakening, Tom Nesbitt, is dismissed as delirious, but he persists.
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Good movie, thank you for the upload. Larry
Thanks for sharing.
Many thanks! I saw this great science fiction film in the movies at the Parkway theatre in Chicago when I was nine years old! LOL.
You just gave your age away. LOL
Excellent, don't have this one. Thank You -------------------------------- R