Word: rhedosaurus
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...after film, holding me in front of a television set on Saturday afternoon when other, smarter kids were out running around. The first one that made an impression on me (coincidentally, Harryhausen's first solo commercial hit) was "Beast from 20,000 Fathoms," a 1953 B-feature starring a "rhedosaurus" awakened from eons-long slumber in arctic ice by - what else? - nuclear testing. It was based on a Saturday Evening Post story by longtime Harryhausen crony Ray Bradbury...
...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 off. The picture has a few scary moments when...
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