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freighter; several men escaped in a life raft. The survivors are questioned by psychiatrists, but when the first sailor's description of a creature with giant tentacles is doubted, the other sailors refuse to testify. Joyce convinces the first sailor to repeat his story. The U.S. government officials halt all sea traffic in the North Pacific without revealing the reason. Carter flies out to sea to trace a missing ship, while Mathews and Joyce follow up on a report of five missing people off the coast of Oregon.
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The local sheriff, Bill Nash, takes Mathews and Joyce to the attack site, where they find giant suction cup imprints in the beach sand. (At this point, Matthews and Joyce have become romantically involved.) They request that Carter join them. Nash is attacked along the beach by the giant octopus; the
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screen. During their scene together, Kenneth Tobey found himself sinking through the sand to the point of appearing shorter than Faith Domergue on camera, forcing him to dig himself out of the hole between every take. A more extensive love scene had been written for the characters but was literally
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noted, "Most of the film is told in a stolid, flat style that seems more like an Army training documentary than a dramatic film. The problem is that one has to plod through three-quarters of the film to get to the monster sequences...Certainly, when the climactic scenes of wholesale destruction do
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of the octopus' eight tentacles; two were eliminated on the final shooting miniature. Harryhausen jokingly named his giant octopus "the sixtopus". For the scenes where a single tentacle is seen moving on screen, Harryhausen used a large model tentacle instead of employing the complete stop-motion
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The navy orders the Golden Gate Bridge abandoned; Carter learns that the electric circuit was left on, so he races to the bridge to shut it off. The giant creature catches hold of the bridge and destroys Carter's car, the electrical voltage irritating it even more. Mathews drives Carter to safety
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The scientists suggest the disappearances of a Japanese fishing fleet and a Siberian seal boat may be the work of the foraging giant. Both Mathews and the Navy representatives express doubt and demand further proof. As Mathews assists Joyce and Carter, a report comes in of an attack on a Canadian
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wrote that the film "utilized elements of the documentary, with a narration that makes the first half of the movie seem almost like a newsreel, which gives the action a greater immediacy. And...This is all presented in a cool, clipped realistic manner, with a strong but convincingly stated macho
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To keep shooting costs low, director Robert Gordon shot inside an actual submarine, both above and under water, using handheld cameras. For a scene that takes place on a stretch of Pacific coastline, Gordon and his crew dumped several truckloads of sand onto a sound stage at Columbia, which they
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Schneer was refused permission to shoot on the actual Golden Gate Bridge, so he put the camera on the back of a bakery truck and drove it back-and-forth over the bridge several times to get the needed footage.
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A monstrous giant octopus rampages along the west coast of North America after becoming too radioactive from nuclear testing in the South Pacific for it to be able to hunt its natural prey in the
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tone...It all served to make the first quarter hour of the film almost irresistibly suspenseful, and gave Harryhausen one of the best lead-ins that one could ask for, for his effects";
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two nearby scientists barely escape. They hastily arrange for all Pacific coast waters to be mined before departing for the navy's base in San Francisco.
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drive the giant tentacles back into the sea. When Mathews fires the jet torpedo into the giant creature, it grabs the submarine. Using an
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who had a B picture unit at Columbia. Schneer said the idea for the film was inspired by the first explosion of the hydrogen bomb in the
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animation model. Some of the later Golden Gate bridge scenes employ a shooting miniature of a bridge support; these were composited in
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authorizes Mathews to take out the submarine and fire the torpedo; Carter joins Mathews aboard while Joyce remains at the base.
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over live footage of the real support (this is the section that the "sixtopus" is seen clinging to in the bridge scene).
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s special effects were budgeted, studio head Sam Katzman allowed Harryhausen only enough money for animating
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return. Unable to outrun or outmaneuver the object, the boat is disabled, but frees itself and returns to
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testing in the area, which has made the giant octopus radioactive, driving off its natural food supply.
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The residents of San Francisco panic and begin a mass exodus. The navy struggles to evacuate the
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called it a "minor entry in the '50s cycle of radiation-paranoia sci-fi pics"; and
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The film's success led to Harryhausen collaborating again with Schneer for
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The film was made by producer Charles Schneer under the supervision of
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An electrified safety net is strung underwater across the entrance to
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A clip from the film was used in the second episode of the TV series
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also praised the film's "Breathtaking special effects"; and the
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are called in; they identify the tissue as a small part of a
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before a bridge section is pulled down by a giant tentacle.
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The title was inspired by Universal's science fiction hit
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torn out of the shooting script by Sam Katzman, to keep
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half-sheet display poster
Robert Gordon
Hal Smith
George Worthing Yates
Charles H. Schneer
Kenneth Tobey
Faith Domergue
Donald Curtis
William Woodson
Henry Freulich
Jerome Thoms
Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Black and white
Columbia Pictures
science fiction
monster
horror film
Columbia Pictures
Sam Katzman
Charles Schneer
Robert Gordon
Kenneth Tobey
Faith Domergue
Donald Curtis
George Worthing Yates
stop motion animation
special effects
Ray Harryhausen
Mindanao Deep

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