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Scriptwriters Lou Morheim (1922~2013) & Fred Freiberger (1915~2003) were also associated with other genre productions as writers/producers.

Lou's credits would include the original Outer Limits, The Immortal TV show.

Fred's were: The Wild, Wild West, Star Trek (TOS), Space:1999, The Six Million Dollar Man, the Superboy TV show.

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I remember feeling sad even as a kid when the beast uttered its death roars at the end as it collapsed and died. It was a feeling I felt again as a much older man when I watched the Matthew Broderick Godzilla die on the bridge; I liked how Broderick's character approached the dying monster and looked forlornly into its eye as the glow went out and it died. It was sad because neither Godzilla nor the Beast asked to be created. They were just victims of our reckless use of atomic weapons.

[Bud Brewster]

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Steve, as a fan of the 1998 Godzilla I completely agree with you. Broderick and everyone connected with that movie did a great job.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

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Always got a kick out of the scene with Cecil Kellaway (Professor Thurgood Elson) & Kenneth Tobey (Colonel Jack Evans) during a phone conversation between their characters in this entertaining movie.

Tobey replies at one point that there are all types of wild stories about sea monsters, the world coming to an end, and flying saucers.

Tobey was in this 1953 film of course which dealt with a sea monster or dinosaur.

In 1955 he would star as Commander Pete Mathew in Ray Harryhausen's "It Came From Beneath the Sea" which dealt with another sea monster. A gigantic octopus.

Earlier, in 1951 he was Captain Pat Hendry in the sci~fi classic "The Thing From Another World."

So he did end up dealing with sea monsters, flying saucers, and almost the end of the world scenario in "The Thing."

Professor Elson to Col. Evans: "Oh, what makes you think there aren't any flying saucers?"

[Bud Brewster]

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Trivia } Original title was "The Monster From Under The Sea."
Whew, glad we dodged that bullet for the movie name.

The producer of the film, Jack Dietz, was unsure about how to realize the dinosaur for the movie. A man in a suit or an alligator dressed up with prosthetics.

The original story was about scientists piercing the earth's crust and discovering an alien creature that had been there centuries.

The alien is hostile (naturally) and intends to conquer our planet. A robot is constructed to defeat the alien, which it does. However, the robot now has to be destroyed with an atomic bomb.

Budget : $150,000, final tally was $210,000.

The scenes of the ice cliff and the avalanche was stock footage from the 1935 film "She."

[Bud Brewster]

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[Bud Brewster]

[Bud Brewster]

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One thing that has always impressed me about the design of the rhedasaurus is the fact that it's a quadrupedal predator.

And yet, all the well-known prehistoric predators are bipedal — T-Rex, allosaurus, velocitraptor, etc. And all the well-known quadrupedal dinosaurs were herbivores. But that's not consistent with the natural order of things!

The most common bipedal animals today (like the kangaroo and the ostrich) are herbivores. But most of the predators are quadrupeds — everything from the lion to the alligator!

So, a quadrupedal predator like the Rhedosaurus is completely consistent with the natural world!



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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It occurred to me that one "prehistoric quadrupedal carnivore" we all know is the dimetrodon, the dinosaurs we see in Journey to the Center of the Earth







The painting above makes it look terrific, but most of the other illustration I've seen just aren't as impressive. However, the model shown below is an exception.





A stop motion dimetrodon rampaging through New York would look pretty cool!





But of course, not as cool as the rhedodaurus.



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Maurice]

Strictly speaking, a dimetrodon isn't a dinosaur at all. It's actually pelycosaurs of the extinct synapsids often called “mammal-like reptiles”, which are closer to a common ancestor to us than a dinosaur. (link). Their kind are thought to have gone extinct like 50 million years before any true dinosaurs ever appeared.
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[Bud Brewster]

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Very interesting, Maurice! Thanks for the info. It encouraged me to go looking another picture of the dimetrodon, and I found this great one.



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Eadie]

[Bud Brewster]

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Miss Eadie, you forgot about my modified 2001 Chevy Lumina with the time machine mechanism in the trunk and the custom Back to the Future license plate which says OUTATIME on the back!





I went back in time, painted that artwork in a prehistoric age while watching those two savage beasts fight it out, and then I posted it here — exclusively for members of All Sci-Fi!

Prior to having the time machine mechanism installed in the trunk, the Lumina was green. I parked it in front of my stylish townhome, right next to my replica of Robby's jeep — which also has a custom license plate!



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)