Phantom from 10,000 Leagues/The Beast with a Million Eyes
by Dan Milner, David Kramarsky, Lou Place, Roger Corman
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Actor: Dick Sargent, Dona Cole, Leonard Tarver, Lorna Thayer, Paul BirchDirector: Dan Milner, David Kramarsky, Lou Place, Roger Corman
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: Charles Hannawalt
Writer: Dorys Lukather
Writer: Lou Rusoff
Writer: Tom Filer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 155 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: Cheap sci-fi thrills, one with surprising family dysfunction!
Summary: 4 Stars
Two very cheap black & white ARC (later AIP) alien invader movies, but the cheapest of the two, BEAST, is by far the most interesting (though possibly because I've never seen it). The alien in it is housed in an espresso machine that crash lands in the desert and plots world domination by utilizing the eyes of insects and animals surrounding a failing guest ranch run by a weary Paul Birch, his bitter, unfulfilled wife (convincingly played by Lorna Thayer, who more famously refused Jack Nicholson his toast years later in FIVE EASY PIECES), their perky daughter (Dona Cole), whom mom secretly resents (nice touch!), and a hired hand they all call "Him" who lives in a tiny shack in the yard with girlie magazine cutouts all over the walls and who spies on the daughter when she goes swimming! Also on hand as alien bait is silent screen legend Chester Conklin, who does a little warmed-over pantomime before "the beast" possesses one of his cows. Cheap beyond belief, and statically directed with an early Paul Blaisdell creature design that leaves a lot to be desired--a jiggling puppet with double-exposure "giant eye" to offset its mediocre appearance--but there's a sincerity to the performances, notably Thayer's, that makes this a keeper.
PHANTOM, the better quality film here, has long been available in PD versions, but this is by far the best it's ever looked, although the "widescreen" presentation gives me pause. Basically another science-gone-wrong flick in which a shady oceanographer (Michael Whalen), keen on exploiting an underwater uranium vein to create a death ray, unleashes the titular sea critter, while his sexy and somewhat oblivious daughter (Kathy Downs) romances the Fed (Kent Taylor) assigned to the case. The "phantom" bears a strong resemblance to the Creature from the Black Lagoon, only less mobile.
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