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The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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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PostPosted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Always got a kick out of the scene with Cecil Kellaway & 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 mutated 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."
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

trekriffic wrote:
I remember feeling sad even as a kid when the beast uttered its death roars at the end as it collapsed and died.

Yes, but did the Beast ever bother to THANK us for getting him out of the ice and reviving him with one of our very expensive atomic bombs!? Shocked

No, he did not! Evil or Very Mad

Geez, what an ingrate . . . Rolling Eyes

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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."
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Pow wrote:
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.

Good lord, just whose "original story" was this which they slightly modified to become . . . a frozen dinosaur released by an atomic bomb? Laughing

And when are they going to make the movie about the alien vs the robot? It sounds great.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

If that sounds familiar it's the plot for REPTILICUS.



from Wiki "The original Danish-language version was directed by Danish director Poul Bang and released in Denmark on February 25, 1961.

The American version, which was in English with a nearly identical cast, was directed by the film's American producer-director Sidney W. Pink; this version was initially deemed virtually unreleasable by American International Pictures and had to be extensively reworked by the film's Danish-American screenwriter, Ib Melchior, before being finally released in America in 1962. Pink was angry at the changes and wound up in a legal dispute with AIP.[1] After Pink and others viewed the English-language version, however, the lawsuit was dropped.



The basic plot:
Danish miners Svend Viltorft dig up a section of a giant reptile's tail from the frozen grounds in Lapland, where they are drilling. The section is flown to the Denmark's Aquarium in Copenhagen, where it is preserved in a cold room for scientific study. But due to careless mishandling, the room is left open and the section begins to thaw.

Once fully regenerated from the tail section, Reptilicus goes on an unstoppable rampage from the Danish countryside to the panic-stricken streets of Copenhagen."



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gord Green wrote:
If that sounds familiar it's the plot for REPTILICUS.

Wow, Gord, that really does sound similar! Shocked

I mean, gosh, if it weren't for the fact the "alien" is actually a dinosaur, and only a piece of it is discovered instead the whole thing, and it grows into a monster, and there's no a robot, and they don't use an atomic bomb at the end . . . why heck fire, those two stories are practically identical! Shocked

(Ummm . . Gord? Is this April Fool's in June again?) Laughing

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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! Shocked

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! Very Happy




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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! Cool





But of course, not as cool as the rhedodaurus. Very Happy



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




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Bud Brewster wrote:
It encouraged me to go looking another picture of the dimetrodon, and I found this great one. Very Happy



Unless you have access to The Time Tunnel (ABC 1966 - 1969), all you can find are either paintings, photo-shopped pictures or scenes from movies like Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) or King Kong (1933).
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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! Very Happy

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! Cool




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