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List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $0.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 13 June, 1953 DVD Release : 21 October, 2003 |
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The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms description A matinee programmer with lofty ambitions, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is best appreciated as a vintage showcase for the stop-motion animation of special-effects legend Ray Harryhausen. The hoary plot follows the cold-war formula that dominated science fiction movies of the 1950s: After an atomic bomb test in the northern polar ice cap, a giga ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | The powerhouse team of Ray Harryhausen on creature effects and Ray Bradbury on story make The Beast an instant classic. |
| The screenplay for The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is loosely based on a short story by Ray Bradbury that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post under the title The Fog Horn. When nuclear testing in the North Pole wakes a fictional carnivorous dinosaur known as the Rhedosaurus, the beast heads toward its familiar mating grounds near New York City and begins a rampage.
The Beast... is one of the more fast paced, better written and directed monster movies of the 1950's. Though many tried to imitate its success few came close to beating out the sheer excitement and awe of Harryhausen's Rhedosaurus. Even Tonka and Honda admitted to stealing a few elements for Godzilla. The Beast...served as Harryhausen's first solo feature film endeavor after working with Willis O'Brien on Mighty Joe Young. Harryhausen continues to be a household name due to his creature work that has spanned some thirty years culminating in such classics as The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans. |
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