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Monday, June 28, 2021
THE BEAST FROM FIFTY MILLION, SKILLION, TRILLION FATHOMS
THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
dir: Eugène Lourié
THE BEAST FROM FIFTY MILLION, SKILLION, TRILLION FATHOMS (1953)
Crazy #2, January 1954
w: Stan Lee
a: Joe Maneely
First in the American "radioactive monster" genre.
A dinosaur has been awakened during a radioactive test at the North Pole, with scientist Thomas Nesbitt (Paul Christian) being the only surviving witness and the military not believing him.
The general in this is a caricature of General MacArthur, leader of the Korean War.
Nesbitt forms an alliance with another scientist who believes him (Cecil Kellaway) and with the aid of the military they attack the monster as it works its way through Canada and down to New York City. His assistant (Paula Raymond) is a brunette but here she's portrayed as a blonde.
A reference here is made to Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
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