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It's basically a remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953), but done with your standard snake-like puppet-monster instead of a sleek Ray Harryhausen creation.
There are several shots from, 'The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms' and 'Earth vs.
It presents comments and scenes of the following classics: The Flying Saucers, Rocketship XM, Destination Moon, The Space Children, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, A Trip to the Moon, The Angry Red Planet, Forbidden Planet, The Thing From Another World, Earth vs.
I was pretty stoked to see this film, generally 1950's films about giant beasts tended to hail from the US and this was one of the handful of British counterparts, along with superior classic The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and Gorgo, which I've not yet seen.
Then it became "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms", about an Apedosaurus who is released from his cryogenic state by a nuclear blast, attacks New York City, pillages rabidly, kills with its radioactive blood, and perishes amid a conflagration in Coney Island's roller coaster.
(I'm thinking -- twenty-thousand fathoms.
I think one of the most disappointing things in this film is the role of John McLaren.It's the same actor(Paul Hubschmid, who is sometimes billed as Paul Christian) from "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms".
I can't believe that some people compare this movie favorably with Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.
The film itself is actually a British version or British spin-off of the Warner Bros. 50's Sci-Fi Blockbuster The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms with Ray Harryhausen doing the Stop-Motion with his first major film with no help like he was first animator in Mighty Joe Young (1949)With Pete Peterson doing about 15% of the animation towards the end of that picture.
Submerged some fathoms below the surface of the water, the monster gave off that very intense but inexplicable glow that several captains had mentioned in their reports.
This chase dragged on for about three-quarters of an hour without the frigate gaining two fathoms on the cetacean.
Kapogo, which is 476 fathoms high.
After clearing the outer belt of rocks via a narrow passageway, the Nautilus lay inside the breakers where the sea had a depth of thirty to forty fathoms.
At this location, in three or four fathoms of water between the Paeu and Vana reefs, there lay some anchors, cannons, and ingots of iron and lead, all caked with limestone concretions.
The skiff was aground ten fathoms away from us.
A gentle slope gravitated to an uneven bottom whose depth was about fifteen fathoms.
But this lofty plateau measured only a few fathoms, and soon we reentered Our Element.
This was off the coast of Tihama, and there such zoophyte displays not only flourished below sea level but they also fashioned picturesque networks that unreeled as high as ten fathoms above it; the latter were more whimsical but less colorful than the former, which kept their bloom thanks to the moist vitality of the waters.
But this rope measured no more than about ten fathoms, and its end had simply been fastened to a small barrel that, while floating, would indicate the dugong's movements beneath the waters.
The skiff approached cautiously to within three fathoms of the animal.
Several times we got within a few fathoms of it, and the Canadian hovered in readiness to strike; but then the dugong would steal away with a sudden dive, and it proved impossible to overtake the beast.
We know that the crew of the Royal Navy's Bulldog fished up a starfish from 2,620 fathoms, hence from a depth of more than one vertical league.
A few hundred fathoms at best.
Don Quixote said that even if it reached to the bottomless pit he meant to see where it went to; so they bought about a hundred fathoms of rope, and next day at two in the afternoon they arrived at the cave, the mouth of which is spacious and wide, but full of thorn and wild-fig bushes and brambles and briars, so thick and matted that they completely close it up and cover it over.
Don Quixote kept calling to them to give him rope and more rope, and they gave it out little by little, and by the time the calls, which came out of the cave as out of a pipe, ceased to be heard they had let down the hundred fathoms of rope.
When, however, they had come to, as it seemed, rather more than eighty fathoms they felt a weight, at which they were greatly delighted; and at last, at ten fathoms more, they saw Don Quixote distinctly, and Sancho called out to him, saying, "Welcome back, senor, for we had begun to think you were going to stop there to found a family."
Down, down with him, fifty fathoms down; his struggles grew fainter and fainter, until they wholly ceased.
On this slightly inclining shore, about a hundred fathoms from the limit of the waves, came down the foot of a huge wall of vast cliffs, which rose majestically to an enormous height.
He tied the heaviest of our pickaxes to a long rope which he let down two hundred fathoms.
The raft was heaved up on a watery mountain and pitched down again, at a distance of twenty fathoms.