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	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a fl and white 1953 science fiction film directed by Eugène Lourié.
		When The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, a short story by Ray Bradbury was published in The Saturday Evening Post, the producers were reminded by someone that both works share a similar theme of prehistoric sea monster.
		While trying to identify the Rhodosaurus, Professor Tom Nesbitt goes through the dinosaur drawings of Charles R. Knight, a man whom Harryhausen claims as in inspiration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Beast_from_20,000_Fathoms (313 words)

	Hollywood Gothique: Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) Review
		A sympathetic paleontologist (Cecil Kellaway) and his beautiful assistant (Paula Raymond) identify the beast as a rhedosaurus and deduce that its path of destruction is taking it toward New York, where it goes on a rampage.
		The Beast carries unknown disease that preclude blasting it to pieces (which would only spread the germs), so the nuclear scientist devises a radioactive isotope that will kill the monsters and the bacteria it carries.
		BEAST, with its use of the H-Bomb, added a modern science-fiction edge, coming at a time when audiences really did fear the Bomb, which had the potential, for the first time in recorded history, to bring about the end of recorded history.
	hollywoodgothique.com /beastfrom20000fathoms1953.html (1327 words)

	Classic Science Fiction Reviews
		His theory postulates that the beast is heading for its ancestral breeding grounds, the Hudson Submarine Canyons, off the East Coast of the United States.
		And the beast's ingestion of a hapless cop is nicely gruesome, as it clamps its jaws around the man's head, then tosses its own head back to gulp him down.
		Perhaps the biggest legacy of Beast is that it was one of the highest grossers for 1953, proving to Hollywood that low-budget derivative SF films could make a mint.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue282/classic.html (792 words)

	Beast From 20,000 Fathoms DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The main hero of THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS is German actor Paul Christian, who had key roles in DAY THE SKY EXPLODED, THE INDIAN TOMB, and THE DEVIL’S AGENT.
		On an Arctic expedition, scientist Tom Nesbitt (Paul Christian) watches on as gigantic prehistoric beast slaughters his comrade; then he himself is injured in an avalanche caused by the creature.
		This allows the military to shoot the beast with a radioactive isotope, bring the creature’s deadly rampage to an end.
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_BeastF20TF.htm (2062 words)

	FilmBeast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms did not invent all the plot points soon to become clichés in monster movies, it was the first to amalgamate so many of them into one package.
		The protagonist, often one of the first to witness the beast, is put in charge of destroying the adversary, even though his expertise is in other areas, and eventually the invader visits a more populated area and causes massive destruction.
		The title was changed to The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, the name of a poetic Ray Bradbury short story it had little in common with, and Warners launched one of the first massive television ad campaigns for a motion picture.
	www.mmmrecordings.com /Films/FilmBeast/filmbeast.html (621 words)

	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms - Movie Reviews Blog
		The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is one of the most influential and well-made movies to come from the âAtomic Ageâ of horror films.
		In this respect, the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms holds up to repeat viewings by varying age groups quite well, particularly children, who only want to watch the movie so they can see the monster crush buildings.
		The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a very early âpopcorn flickâ, lacking most of the social commentary youâd find in, say, the original Godzilla.
	www.filmsy.com /reviews/the-beast-from-20000-fathoms (701 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
		Because Beast was one of 1953's biggest box-office successes, a new subgenre showcasing gigantic irradiated spiders, insects, reptiles, and Air Force lieutenant colonels was born.
		The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms is slow and stodgy today, and its relatively primitive visuals are impressive more for their seminal history than their technical polish.
		The other extra here is a collection of amusingly overbaked vintage trailers for The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (spot actors Vera Miles and Paul Picerni, who don't appear in the movie itself), The Valley of Gwangi, The Black Scorpion, and Clash of the Titans.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/b/beastfrom20kfathoms.q.shtml (938 words)

	DVD Authority \| DVD Review of "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Of course, Harryhausen's immense talents were obvious even before The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, but this was the first time he was handed the reins on a production.
		But thanks to Harryhausen and Bradbury, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms isn't just another "so bad its good" piece of 50s cinema, instead it is a well crafted monster movie.
		The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is presented in full frame, as intended.
	www.dvdauthority.com /Reviews.asp?ReviewID=3522 (787 words)

	Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The - Review - AWWW BEAST!
		Often forgotten about, possibly due to it's impossibley long title, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms was a 1954 picture that bridged a gap between the movies of the two most famous giant monsters of all.
		Tom himself witnesses this beast, a giant dinosaur-esque creature, which causes an avalanche, crushing his friend and causing Tom to faint.
		Sure it has it's silly scenes, the entire diving-bell sequence, including the stock footage of a shark fighting an octopus, could have been cut, but the 50s seemed to have a thing for movies with diving bells, I think it was a requirement or something.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-b/beast-from-20-000-fathoms-the/1041606 (671 words)

	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
		One of the first, and to this day, greatest of these films is the Ray Harryhausen classic, ‘The beast from 20,000 phantoms’.
		The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms became the sleeper hit of 1953, grossing in excess of $5 million, even today it continues to gross huge sums, making a mint for Warner Bros.
		The picture opened on the 1st of June 1953, with Warner spending $20,000 on a huge publicity campaign, matching its negative costs and making the film the hit of the year.
	www.theseventhvoyage.com /beastreview.htm (538 words)

	Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
		Perhaps the most interesting point about The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is the way in which it has far more in common with the average atomic monster movie than do its better known descendants from the following year.
		The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms marks the point at which Ray Harryhausen first emerged from the shadow of Willis O’Brien as a major talent in his own right.
		Consequently, the animation of the Rhedosaurus is some of the smoothest ever filmed, making it by far the most believable of all Harryhausen’s frankly fantastic creations (by which I mean to exclude such things as the giant crab in Mysterious Island and the chess-playing baboon in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger).
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsa-d/beastfrom20000fathoms.htm (1837 words)

	The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
		The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, however, remains the work for which Ray will probably be always remembered for.
		The Beast does predate Godzilla by a year (and the two movies borrow a lot from each other, just how much becomes apparent when you watch them back to back), but King Kong beats them both to the punch by about 20.
		With that mug shot in one hand, and a survivor of one of the Beast's sea attacks in the other, the two finally convince Elson to sign off on their theory.
	chosis.coldfusionvideo.com /beast_20k.htm (814 words)

	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
		The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms is generally considered to be the initiator of the 1950s trend for creatures-awakened-by-an-atomic-explosion.
		Reputed to have cost $200,000 and to have generated $5million in revenues, it was undoubtedly one of the most successful science fiction films of its time.
		Ostensibly based on "The Fog Horn", which was first published as "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms", the movie has little in common with Bradbury's tale: the lighthouse attack is central to the short story, but incidental here.
	pers-www.wlv.ac.uk /~in5379/films/beast/beast.htm (654 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
		Although THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS ($20) was the first film in which Ray Harryhausen was solely responsible for the stop motion animation special effects, his signature style was already properly in place, thus making it the archetype for many of the legendary fantasy films upon which his reputation was built.
		Based upon a Ray Bradbury story, the plot of THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS is concerned with a nuclear test explosion in the arctic that awakens a dinosaur that has been hibernating in the ice for a hundred million years.
		The Rhedosaurus And The Roller Coaster: Making The Beast is a six-minute program that features Ray Harryhausen, who talks about the projects origins as a Ray Bradbury short story, its adaptation to film and his stop-motion effects work.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_2003/bftf-dvd.htm (627 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
		The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms is an endearingly simpleminded but visually impressive monster movie, the first of the 50s science fiction pictures to feature a giant, city-attacking prehistoric creature.
		The cop calmly unloads his pistol at the Beast, and while reloading is snapped up like an after-dinner mint and gobbled like a piece of popcorn.
		Warners' The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms looks just fine on DVD with a transfer from an element that seems in even better shape than the 1993 laser disc.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s994fathom.html (1458 words)

	MOVIE REVIEW_The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
		This Beast rampages through city streets, eats a diving bell, sinks a ship, topples a lighthouse, looms above the populace, pushes over office buildings - no doubt affecting the Dow-Jones Average egregiously – with nary a doubt that it is really performing these feats.
		Identifying The Beast was an exercise in malarky: The Chick gives White Hero a ream of artist's renderings of dinosaurs, to pinpoint what he may have seen during his unnecessary Arctic nuclear tests.
		Thankfully, the inanimate humans in the film were overshadowed by the cutaways of a backdrop ablaze with the roller-coaster trellis, silhouetting The Beast roaring its long goodbye.
	www.poffysmoviemania.com /BeastFrom20000Fathoms.html (742 words)

	THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
		He believes that the beast, a dinosaur of the rare (and fictitious) "Rhedosaurus" species, is making its way to its ancestral breeding grounds in the submarine canyons off the coast of New York City...
		Until the Beast hits the streets he only appears in the film very briefly, when Nesbitt first observes him in the arctic, with the sinking of the first ship, and in the terrific lighthouse sequence (in which the creature is seen almost completely in silhouette, a simple yet highly effective technique).
		Even the Beast's famous rampage through New York isn't that long — just a few minutes of footage — but can anyone who ever saw this as a kid forget the World's Dumbest Cop...
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/beast_20000_fathoms.htm (1004 words)

	THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS BEHIND THE SCENES
		Both Ray Harryhausen and Ray Bradbury have slightly different versions but, to cut to the chase, Bradbury had published the short story THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS in the Saturday Evening Post containing a sequence that was remarkably similar to the scene in the film where the Rhedosaurus attacks a lighthouse.
		The movie concerns an atomic explosion that releases a prehistoric beast that was frozen in the arctic circle.
		The beast is very much alive and begins to migrate to his breeding grounds, which happens to be off the shoreline of New York City.
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	The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
		Loosely based on one scene from a 1951 Ray Bradbury short story published in The Saturday Evening Post, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS is THE archetypal 50s giant monster movie.
		This is the first film on which model animator legend Ray Harryhausen worked independently on the special effects, and the results are still spectacular to this day, as his fictional creation of the "Rhedosaurus" remains one of the most famous movie monsters of all time.
		The beast eventually makes its way to the shoreline of New York, crushing cars, stomping on several buildings, swallowing a police officer, and ends up in Coney Island for a "rollercoaster" of an ending.
	www.dvddrive-in.com /reviews/a-d/beastfromtwenty53.htm (541 words)

	Foster on Film - Giant Monsters: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
		His rhedosaurus (don't try looking it up in a paleontology book) may be one of his earliest, but it is also one of his best.
		The beast's New York romp, smashing through buildings, grabbing cars, and chewing on a rollercoaster, is a classic scene that fans of the genre should have permanently imbedded in their brains.
		A "suggested by" credit is given to Ray Bradbury, for his story, The Foghorn, in which a dinosaur is awakened by the sound of a foghorn, thinking it is one of his kind, and dies of a broken heart when he discovers otherwise.
	www.fosteronfilm.com /horror/giants/beastfrom20000.htm (714 words)

	Amazon.com: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms: Video: Paul Hubschmid,Paula Raymond,Cecil Kellaway,Kenneth Tobey,Donald ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Based on a story by Ray Bradbury, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953) was directed by Eugne Louri and serves nicely as the first real showcase of technical effects master Ray Harryhausen.
		The beast, it's a big 'un alright, is spotted by two scientists, one being Tom Nesbitt, played by Paul Hubschmid (credited in the film as Paul Christian).
		This movie is stuffed with visually striking moments--the monster's sillouetted attack on the lighthouse, the undersea search for the beast in the bathysphere, the street carnage with the iconic devouring of the police officer, the strikingly imaginative death of the monster.
	www.amazon.com /Beast-20-000-Fathoms/dp/630210176X (2593 words)

	DVDFanatic Review: Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
		The Beast is about a carnivorous dinosaur that is freed from its artic prison as the result of a nuclear test.
		It’s amazing to me that the original story for The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms was taken from a Saturday Evening Post by Ray Bradbury, who is one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time.
		The first look at the Beast, the attacks at sea on the boats, the lighthouse attack in silhouette and of course the famous police officer getting chomped on the streets of New York are all beautiful scenes.
	www.dvdfanatic.com /review.php?id=beastfrom20fathoms (1218 words)

	The Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah
		Inspired by a short story by Ray Bradbury that was published in the Saturday Evening Post Magazine, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms became a huge box-office sensation that helped generate a wave of other dinosaur and monster movies during the 1950s.
		The superb stop-motion special effects were created by Ray Harryhausen who based the fictional dinosaur on the artwork used in the short story.
		It was the first to break the size barrier in presenting dinosaurs as being far larger than any really were in life.
	www.dinosaur-museum.org /cinesaurus/beast.htm (117 words)

	Amazon.ca: Beast from 20,000 Fathoms: Video: Eugène Lourié,Paul Hubschmid,Paula Raymond,Cecil Kellaway,Kenneth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A matinee programmer with lofty ambitions, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is best appreciated as a vintage showcase for the stop-motion animation of special-effects legend Ray Harryhausen.
		The special effects of the rhedosaurus are quite good when the beast rampages through lower Manhattan, showing the ferocious prehistoric dinosaur to chilling effect as it lurches through the streets with frightened New Yorkers fleeing for their lives.
		The beast arises after one of our top secret A-bomb tests wakes it from cryogenic slumber, under tons of ice at the north pole.
	www.amazon.ca /Beast-000-Fathoms-Eug%C3%A8ne-Louri%C3%A9/dp/630210176X (1417 words)

	Taste the Blood of LiveJournal - The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Gojira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms - No, not Ann Coulter (while they're equally scaly, the creature revived from the Arctic isn't half as cold-blooded as the Republicans' Nazi cheerleader), but an ancient 'rhedosaurus' set free from its icy prison by atomic testing.
		While The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is now seen as a light-hearted, rather anachronistic monster romp, Gojira is entirely more serious in tone.
		Still, while The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is every bit a fine '50s monster movie, the original version of Gojira remains one of the classics of Cinema.
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	GreenCine \| product main - The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A longtime "dream" project of production designer-turned-director Eugene Lourie, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms sees the titular beast unleashed on the world via nuclear testing.
		Beast From 20,000 Fathoms represented effects artist Ray Harryhausen's first solo effort, after assisting Willis O'Brien on Mighty Joe Young (1949).
		Upon re-watching it on its initial release on DVD, it's clear the middle act of the beast crawling up from the piers and rampaging through the city might have inspired Devlin and Emmerich's opening act of their Godzilla remake.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=35178 (338 words)

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