The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms |
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| Directed by | Eugène Lourié |
| Produced by | Jack Dietz Hal E. Chester |
| Screenplay by | Fred Freiberger Eugène Lourié Louis Morheim Robert Smith |
| Starring | Paul Christian Paula Raymond Cecil Kellaway Kenneth Tobey |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
| Cinematography | Jack Russell |
| Editing by | Bernard W. Burton |
| Studio | Warner Bros. |
| Distributed by | Premier Productions |
| Release date(s) | June 13, 1953 |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $210,000 |
| Money made | $5,000,000 |
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a 1953 science fiction monster movie. It was released on June 13, 1953, by Premier Productions. It was produced by Warner Bros. It made over $5 million, including $2.25 million in the United States in its first year.
The movie was the first movie to show a monster being woken up or created by an explosion from an atomic bomb. Its success helped cause the creation of more monster movies in the 1950s such as Godzilla.
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Plot
An atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle wakes up a sleeping dinosaur, the fictional Rhedosaurus. After being woken up, it destroys New York City before being killed at Coney Island.
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Images for kids
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The Beast destroys a lighthouse, an original concept from the Ray Bradbury short story "The Fog Horn"
See also
In Spanish: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms para niños
