The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
| 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 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 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
[change | change source]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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