Uniform Title |
20 million miles to earth (Motion picture : 1957) |
Title |
20 million miles to earth. |
Published |
Australia : Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, 2018. |
©1957 |
Description |
1 DVD-video (83 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 12 cm. |
Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
Umbrella Entertainment : DAVID3956. |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957. |
At head of title: The Ray Harryhausen Classic... |
"Ymir! Can mankind survive this creature's wrath?" -- Cover. |
"Not since King Kong has the world seen anything like it!" -- Container. |
Credits |
Directed by Nathan Juran. Screenplay by Bob Williams and Christopher Knopf. |
Performers |
William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia. |
Summary |
Special effects master Ray Harryhausen (Clash of the Titans, One Million Years B.C.) brings you one of his earliest groundbreaking films. On its way home from Venus, a U.S. Army rocket ship crashes into the sea of Sicily leaving Colonel Calder (William Hopper, Rebel Without a Cause) the sole survivor ...or so it seems. A sealed container is also recovered from the wreck and when a zoologist (Frank Puglia, Girls! Girls! Girls!) and his granddaughter (Joan Taylor, Earth vs the Flying Saucers) open it, the gelatinous mass inside escapes. Overnight, it grows into a horrific monster that has doubled in size. In desperation, Calder calls in the Army to help fight the monster, which has taken refuge atop the Coliseum in Rome. But it will take more than man's weapons to fight the evil forces of the unknown and save the world from destruction. |
Target audience note |
Censorship classification : PG. |
System details |
DVD video, Dolby Digital 5.1, NTSC, Region 4, 16:9 widescreen, 1.85:1. |
Language note |
English. |
Subjects |
Space flight -- Drama |
Life on other planets -- Drama |
Human-alien encounters -- Drama |
Venus (Planet) -- Drama |
Genre |
Science fiction films |
Fiction films |
Feature films |
Other Names |
Juran, Nathan, 1907-2002 film director. |
Williams, Bob (Robert Creighton) screenwriter. |
Knopf, Christopher screenwriter. |
Harryhausen, Ray special effects designer. |
Hopper, William, 1915-1970 actor. |
Taylor, Joan, 1929-2012 actor. |
Puglia, Frank, 1892-1975 actor. |
Links to Related Works |
Subject References:
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Authors:
- Harryhausen, Ray .
- Hopper, William, 1915-1970 .
- Juran, Nathan, 1907-2002 .
- Knopf, Christopher .
- Puglia, Frank, 1892-1975 .
- Taylor, Joan, 1929-2012 .
- Williams, Bob (Robert Creighton) .
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