20 Million Miles to Earth.
20 Million Miles to Earth (also known as The Beast from Space) is a 1957 American science-fiction monster film directed by Nathan Juran and featuring stop-motion animation by Ray Harryhausen. It stars William Hopper, Joan Taylor, and Frank Puglia. Set in Italy, the film centers on an alien lifeform from Venus that arrives via a crashed rocket, and begins rapidly growing.
Plot
The first U.S. spaceship to Venus, the XY-21, crashes into the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Italy. Fishermen in their boats head to the spacecraft, enter it through a hole, 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 | Rome |
| director | Nathan Juran |
| editor | Edwin Bryant |
| genre | action adventure animation horror science fiction thriller |
| keywords | american embassy attack build colosseum drive electric shock elephant flirt injured italy kill little boy medical student mediterranean sea morning on the beach police commissioner ponte sant'angelo river sea creature seclude shoot 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 | disaster extraterrestrial life monster movie science fiction action science fiction horror science fiction thriller |