Word: beastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (Warner) has a climactic sequence that seems to have been made to order for 3-D: a prehistoric monster tangled up in a Coney Island roller coaster. But the picture is a flattie, and unfortunately the writing and direction are as flat as the photography. The beast is a 40-ft.-high "rhedosaurus," which gets to Coney Island after being dislodged by an Arctic atom-bomb test from a 100 million-year hibernation. With the help of a handsome scientist (Paul Christian) and a pretty paleontologist (Paula Raymond), the Mesozoic monster is finally killed...
...story of their blundering journey is told by Author Benuzzi with both vividness and restraint. The nervousness of fugitives untrained to the African bush, the encounters with an elephant and a rhinoceros, the hasty retreat from a beast which turned out to be a cow, are all skillfully exploited for suspense. But the real challenge began only as the three men pressed higher on Mount Kenya itself...
Architect Le Corbusier, who drives his 20-year-old Fiat at a nervous, bucking 15 m.p.h., treats traffic in Chandigarh like a dangerous beast. He has seven different types of roads criss-crossing his dream city like a waffle grid. There will be separate roads for children, for bicycles, pedestrians and cars. All fast, cross-city arteries are sunk 14 feet below ground level to hide the traffic and reduce noise, will have bridges for pedestrians to cross safely. Says Le Corbusier, peering happily through his thick spectacles: "The system will restore to the pedestrian the dignity and peace...
...Experienced ox-roasters were hard to come by after years of meat rationing, but here & there villages found oldtimers who remembered from coronations past how to skewer a beast and cook him whole, Tudor style, on the town common...
...Other, Love," both worthy of their composers. "No Other Love" would be even better if Rodger's melody did not sound so like Irving Berlin's "Something to Dance About." The only song actually bad is "The Big Black Giant," which liens theatre audiences to a large beast. A heavy, cumbersome tune coupled with a dubious simile in the lyric, it is the only dull spot in the entire performance...