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List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $6.49 You Save: $6.49 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 gigantic dinosaur--the fictional "Rhedosaurus"--is awakened from eons of dormancy, plots an undersea course for the Eastern seaboard, and proceeds to wreak havoc on New York City, culminating in a showdown with military marksmen at the Coney Island amusement park. Stock footage and tissue-thin drama make this a by-the-numbers monster flick, further hampered by Eugene Lourie's lackluster direction and a wooden B-movie cast. And yet, Harryhausen's first independent effort retains its atomic-age fascination: Beast marked yet another technical milestone for Harryhausen's impeccable techniques, and its perpetual status as a sci-fi classic is duly acknowledged in the DVD bonus features, including a retrospective featurette and a latter-day reunion of Harryhausen and longtime friend Ray Bradbury, whose short story "The Fog Horn" served as this film's inspiration. --Jeff Shannon |
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| I was buying this DVD for Nostalgic reasons, I had never seen the film, but they always show pieces of it in other monster movies it seems.
I wasn't expecting an award winning feature, just the typical monster movie fare. This was a good movie, the monster was the most realistic looking of it's genre, acting was on par with other movies of this time period, and much better than that of monster movies which were made more recently. What I really wanted to know, prior to purchase was that this DVD would be in a condition similar to the rest of my collection, that it would play well, and be something I could comfortably loan to friends and family. This DVD more than met all of my expectations, and left no doubt in my mind that I could trust the person I bought it from to provide quality products in the future, and that those products would be as advertized. |
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