20 Million Miles to Earth.
20 Million Miles to Earth (also known as The Beast from Space) is a 1957 American horror science fiction monster film directed by Nathan Juran and starring William Hopper, Joan Taylor, and Frank Puglia. It was produced by Charles H. Schneer's Morningside Productions for Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Bob Williams and Christopher Knopf from an original treatment by Charlott Knight. As with several other Schneer-Columbia collaborations, the film was developed to showcase the stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen.
Plot
The first U.S. spaceship to Venus, the XY-21, crashes into the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Sicily, Italy. Fishermen in their boats head to the spacecraft, enter through a hole in the spacecraft, and pull two spacemen from the nose-down craft before it completely sinks.
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| author | Charlotte Knight |
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| contentLocation | Italy |
| director | Nathan H. Juran |
| editor | Edwin Bryant |
| genre | animation horror science fiction |
| keywords | american embassy attack build colosseum drive electric shock fatal disease flirt injured kill little boy medical student mediterranean sea morning on the beach police commissioner ponte sant'angelo river rome sea creature seclude shoot sicily summon temple of saturn terrorize united states air force usaf venus venusian venusians wash |
| musicBy | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
| producer | Charles H. Schneer |
| productionCompany | Morningside Productions |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| theme | extraterrestrial life monster movie science fiction horror |