The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (13-Jun-1953)

Director: Eugene Lourie

Writers: Fred Freiberger; Eugčne Lourié; Louis Morheim; Robert Smith

From a novel: The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury (short story)

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Steve Brodie Actor 21-Nov-1919 9-Jan-1992 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

King Donovan Actor 25-Jan-1918 30-Jun-1987 Character actor husband of Imogene Coca

Cecil Kellaway Actor 22-Aug-1893 28-Feb-1973 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Paula Raymond Actor 23-Nov-1924 31-Dec-2003 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

Kenneth Tobey Actor 23-Mar-1917 22-Dec-2002 Wings of Eagles

Lee Van Cleef Actor 9-Jan-1925 16-Dec-1989 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Donald Woods Actor 2-Dec-1906 5-Mar-1998 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

REVIEWS

Review by Hal Bennett (posted on 15-Dec-2007)

Since I haven't seen this movie is probably over forty years, I can only give you my impression of it. But I remember the impact it had on me and presumably upon others who saw it. As far as I am concerned, it was a much, much better movie than those other representative movies of the same genre, the Japanese Godzilla movies. "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms," as I remember, emerges from deep beneath the North Pacific or North Atlantic Ocean, released from its age-old imprisonment, I believe, by an atomic explosion. It is seen first by mariners on the high seas, and winds up at a huge amusement park in the United States. The scene that remains with me is the monster, tail waving, silhouetted in front of the burning roller coaster in the background. I have always personally ranked this as a monster movie nearly as good as the original (1933) King Kong movie. There is something about "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" that zeroes in on the raw base fear we as humans probably have of the primeval dragon, as described by Carl Sagan in THE DRAGONS OF EDEN.

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