20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
Actors:
Thomas Browne Henry (actor),
Edwin H. Bryant (editor),
Ray Harryhausen (actor),
Arthur Space (actor),
Mischa Bakaleinikoff (composer),
James Dime (actor),
Frank Puglia (actor),
William Hopper (actor),
John Zaremba (actor),
Tito Vuolo (actor),
Jan Arvan (actor),
Robert Creighton Williams (writer),
William Woodson (actor),
Nathan Juran (director),
Bart Braverman (actor),
Plot: The first spaceship to visit Venus crash lands in the sea, freeing a small native Venusian creature called the Ymir. Eventually growing to enormous size, it threatens the city of Rome.
Keywords: 1950s-horror, alien, american-embassy, animal-attack, astronaut, attacked-by-dog, barn, bazooka, boy, cowboy-hat
Genres:
Fantasy,
Horror,
Sci-Fi,
Taglines: Space nightmares! Monster from outerspace runs wild! Out-Of-Space Creature Invades the Earth!
Quotes:
Contino: Fascinating. Horrible, but fascinating.
Dr. Judson Uhl: I've had nightmares in my time, but I've never dreamed of anything like this.
Marisa Leonardo: Caught me unprepared. I've been cooking over a hot creature all day.
Col. Robert Calder: Get that elephant out of there!
[on the plan to capture the alien creature with a huge net]::Col. Robert Calder: Doc, this is like a parachute. It's got to work the first time!
[opening narration]::Narrator: Great scientific advances are oftentimes sudden accomplished facts before most of us are even dimly aware of them. Breathtakingly unexpected, for example, was the searing flash that announced the atomic age. Equally unexpected was the next gigantic stride when Man moved out of his very orbit to a point more than 20 million miles to Earth.
[first lines]::Mondello: Pepe! Is it your desire that the fishes, they swim away? Come on! Pull up on the net, here.
[last lines]::Dr. Judson Uhl: Why is it always, always so costly for Man to move from the present to the future?
Dr. Judson Uhl: You better tell them we're in a hurray and to roll up the red tape and put it into a drawer until this thing is over!
Maj. Gen. A.D. McIntosh: What I have to say you will find incredible- but true. Colonel Calder here has just returned from an expedition to Venus.::Contino: To Venice? [Turning to Charra] Perhaps you mean Venezia?::Col. Robert Calder: [Impatiently] To Venus! The planet Venus!