The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
by Eug?ne Louri?
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Actor: Cecil Kellaway, Donald Woods, Kenneth Tobey, Paul Hubschmid, Paula RaymondDirector: Eug?ne Louri?
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
Movie Review: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms - Great Old Sci-fi Flick
Summary: 3 Stars
I first saw The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms in 1953 as a small child and thoroughly enjoyed this film. When I first saw it I would have rated it at five stars but would only rate it today at three. This DVD was an excellent transfer and employed a new process to colorize it beautifully.
I thought the DVD was excellent and a very good value. The film itself was literally hand made by the famous Ray Harryhausen for well under $200,000, and then sold to a studio for $400,000. It went on to earn millions of dollars and to become a film classic. His technique was improved and perfected over the years resulting in some of our favorite fantasy movies.
I remember seeing advertising for the Beast pasted all over the Bronx in the summer of 1953, and asking my mom to take me to this film which she did not wish to see. She asked my poor old grandfather to bring me to the theater and since he was always agreeable, he consented.
I then saw this movie with my grandfather at a local neighborhood theater one Sunday afternoon in the old Bronx. The kids in the LUXOR Theater loved the film and were roaring with assorted comments. I guess my grandfather, who was "baby sitting" for me, did not enjoy it nearly as much. He snored his way through the entire film and only woke up to ask "How much longer is the movie and are you enjoying it?"
His snoring blended in with the low rumble of the Beast very nicely and the kids seated around us laughed between their bouts of yelling. This childhood memory demonstrated to me that my grandfather could indeed sleep under any and all conditions, something he boasted he could do going back to his boyhood in the old country when working on the farm. Grandfather was definitely not a science fiction fan but a good scout.
Summary of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
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 ShannonNear the Arctic Circle an atomic bomb is detonated. This fearsome experiment disturbs the sleep of a giant rhedosaurus encased in ice for more than 100-million years and sends it southward on a destructive deadly rampage. The Beast from 20000 Fathoms is a film of firsts. It spawned a new era of atomic-age creature features. It was the first screen adaptation of a work by fantasy fiction titan Ray Bradbury. And it marked the first time Ray Harryhausen had control over special effects. He came up with a fantastic creature (constructed at full scale all 50 tons of it) that swims down from the north to run amok through New York City before being conquered in a spectacular Coney Island roller coaster finale.Take a classic ride. Unleash The Beast. Year: 1953Running Time: 80 min.System Requirements:Running Time 80 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 085392753420 Manufacturer No: 27534
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