It Came from Beneath the Sea
It Came from Beneath the Sea is a 1955 American science fiction monster horror film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Sam Katzman and Charles Schneer, directed by Robert Gordon, that stars Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, and Donald Curtis. The screenplay by George Worthing Yates was designed to showcase the stop motion animation special effects of Ray Harryhausen.
Plot
A nuclear submarine on its shakedown cruise in the Pacific Ocean, captained by Commander Pete Mathews, comes into contact with a massive sonar return. Unable to outrun and outmaneuver the object, the boat is disabled, but frees itself and returns to Pearl Harbor. Tissue from a huge sea creature is discovered jammed in the submarine's dive planes.
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| author | Hal Smith |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | San Francisco |
| director | Robert Gordon |
| editor | Jerome Thoms |
| events | cephalopod |
| genre | animation horror science fiction |
| keywords | abandon aqua-lung aqualung attack build creature with the atom brain defense department disabled drive drive-in drive-in theater embarcadero ferry building fish flamethrower forage force giant octopus gigantic octopus golden gate bridge government official harvard university hydrogen bomb kill knock out life raft marine biologist natural habitat nuclear submarine pacific ocean pearl harbor san francisco bay san francisco ferry building sea creature shakedown cruise sonar test under water united states department of defense |
| musicBy | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
| producer | Charles H. Schneer |
| productionCompany | Clover Productions |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| recordedAt | San Francisco |
| theme | monster movie science fiction horror |