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...successful in providing thrills, and to them is added the octopus, the slimy vandal of the underseas. As the object of these beasts is to freeze the audience into that state of terror which precedes death and renders impossible thought, more and more frightful titles may be daily expected. Pithicanthropus erectus may soon overawe the spectators, or perhaps a pterodactyle; at the denouement they could, with customary plausibility, be found traveling salesmen who had cast such weird shadows by walking in the rain before a moving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LO, THE BRONTOSAUSUS | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

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