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...real an exchange may be than about what will provoke the most intense emotional response in the audience. When he applies this philosophy to the show’s technical elements, however, the result tends towards the literal and obvious. The splendidly demented use of the Beauty and the Beast theme is one of the few examples that transcends this handicap...
Soon after seeing "Beast from 20,000 Fathoms," probably in the early '60s and definitely on television, my brother and I began to check out the other items in the Harryhausen oeuvre. The next great one we saw was "It Came from Beneath the Sea"; it's still one of my favorites. The giant octopus wrapped around the Golden Gate Bridge has become an iconic image in American pop. Next time you see it look closely and note the octopus has only five tentacles, three fewer for Harryhausen to move during each day's tedious shooting. The producers saved...
Along with "Beast" and "Beneath the Sea" there was "Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers" - ineradicable images of wrecked saucers slicing through the Capitol Dome - and "20 Million Miles to Earth," where Rome's Coliseum stood in for the Coney Island roller coaster. But by the end of the decade, the genre Harryhausen helped define was dying at the box office. Pop cinema was getting sexier and a lot more violent. As Ray later said about his unsuccessful 1969 picture "Valley of the Gwangi," "A naked dinosaur just was not outrageous enough...
...Denham, standing by Kong's corpse on 34th Street: "Well Denham, the airplanes got him." "Ah no," says Denham, hands in pockets, "it wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." Fade up "Kong" theme...
...broke box-office records at Sid Graumann's Chinese (where 13-year-old Ray Harryhausen saw it with his aunt). It was a hit in five rereleases as well, especially in 1952, when it helped to inspire the radiation-monster cycle that began a year later with "Beast From 20,000 Fathoms...