Release date: June 1st 1957.
Story: When a spacecraft crash lands off the shores of Sicily, only one crew member and a container were the only ones who were saved from the crash before the whole craft sinks into the ocean. The container it turns out, contains a creature that is sold to a traveling scientist and his daughter. But the creature escapes and wonders the countryside. It is then learned that the more it breaths, the bigger it gets. So will everyone manage to recapture the creature before it get too big? Watch the movie and find out.
My thoughts: This was the last of the Ray Harryhausen movies that feature a giant monster on the loose (until the Valley of Gwangi in 1969). The creature looks fantastic and the suspense is also great. The climax with the creature runs havoc in Rome and climbs the colosseum (paying homage to King Kong) is amazing to watch and I would recommend it. Fun fact the creature was originally planed to be a cyclops but was later changed. But the cyclops design was later used in The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad.
My score: Four stars.
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