The Beast from 20,000 fathoms

W/Ray Bradbury

Adapted by Ray Bradbury from a story he published in the Saturday Evening Post. A prehistoric monster is awakened from his long sleep by the heat of an atomic bomb blast. It then makes its way down along the coast ending, finally, in NYC.

While I still have great fondness for this film from seeing it at age 8 I only watched it this time to study the work of Ray Harryhausen, master stop-motion animator. He was the best we ever produced and led the way for Nick Park et al. His work still shines - to my eye excels the shallow effects of current CGI.

For one of these 1950's monster flicks this was a good one.

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