The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953 horror film directed by Eugène Lourié, Ray Harryhausen
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a 1953 science fiction monster movie. It was released on June 13, 1953, by Premier Productions. It was produced by Warner Bros. It made over $5 million,[2] including $2.25 million in the United States in its first year.[3]
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | |
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Directed by | Eugène Lourié |
Screenplay by | Fred Freiberger Eugène Lourié Louis Morheim Robert Smith |
Produced by | Jack Dietz Hal E. Chester |
Starring | Paul Christian Paula Raymond Cecil Kellaway Kenneth Tobey |
Cinematography | Jack Russell |
Edited by | Bernard W. Burton |
Music by | David Buttolph |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Premier Productions |
Release date | June 13, 1953 |
Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $210,000[1] |
Box office | $5,000,000 |
The movie was the first movie to show a monster being woken up or created by an explosion from an atomic bomb. Its success helped cause the creation of more monster movies in the 1950s such as Godzilla.
Plot
An atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle wakes up a sleeping dinosaur, the fictional Rhedosaurus. After being woken up, it destroys New York City before being killed at Coney Island.
Cast
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