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    Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953)

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    Near 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 20,000 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.

    Harryhausen 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 (actually The Long Beach Amusement Park in California).

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    Professor Tom Nesbitt
    Paul Hubschmid
    Lee Hunter
    Paula Raymond
    Dr Thurgood Elson
    Cecil Kellaway
    Colonel John Evans
    Kenneth Tobey
    Jacob Bowman
    Jack Pennick
    Captain Philip Jackson
    Donald Woods
    Corporal Stone
    Lee Van Cleef
    Sergeant Loomis
    Steve Brodie
    Professor George Ritchie
    Ross Elliott
    Sergeant Willistead
    Ray Hyke
    Nesbitt’s secretary
    Mary Hill
    Dr Morton
    Frank Ferguson
    Dr Ingersoll
    King Donovan

    Director
    Eugene Lourie

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