poster on linen THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS 1953 ORIGINAL US1Sht LINENBACKED

Description: A RAY HARRYHAUSEN Classic! Original 1953 Theatrical USA One Sheet on Linen in GOOD+ Condition, nicely backed. Natural, age-appropriate edgewear and fold wear. A restored poster that shows general signs of use. There were pinholes around the edges and some score marks scattered in the poster. After simple linenbacking, the poster displays very well. Linen border is one to two inches outside poster border. Beautiful poster with sci-fi, horror sea monster dinosaur imagery. FAST and SAFE DELIVERY a Certainty. Part of a gallery of more than ONE THOUSAND LINENBACKED and more than 30,000 un-restored original rare paper items being offered for the first time to the eBay community. ALL PHOTOS of Rare Paper are ACTUAL ITEMS being sold. Please, ask questions before purchase, we will do our best to oblige you. 1953. Directed by Eugene Lourie, original story base by RAY BRADBURY, special animation f/X by RAY HARRYHAUSEN. TAGLINES : "It's Alive!" "Cast of thousands! Over a year in the making!" "The seas master beast of the ages- raging up from the bottom of time" "A Thrill-Story Beyond All Imagining!"- A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City. As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, only witness to the beast's existence, is not believed, even when he identifies it as a "rhedosaurus" to paleontologist Thurgood Elson. All doubts disappear, however, when Elson is swallowed whole during an oceanic bathysphere excursion to search for the creature. Soon thereafter the rhedosaurus emerges from the sea and lays waste to Manhattan Island until Nesbitt comes up with a plan to try to stop the seemingly indestructible beast. CAST includes Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Woods, Steve Brodie, Ross Elliott, Jack Pennick, Michael Fox, Frank Ferguson, King Donovan, Alvin Greenman, Fred Aldrich, Roy Engel, Bess Flowers, Franklyn Farnum, Merv Griffin (voice), Vera Miles, James Best. BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : This was said to have been one of the inspirations for Tomoyuki Tanaka to go ahead and film Godzilla (1954). This film (which was inspired by the successful 1952 re-release of King Kong (1933)) was the first to feature a giant creature awakened or mutated by an atomic bomb. One of the many characteristics that separated Harryhausen from lesser stop-motion animators was his attention to realism. When the beast steps on a parked car and crushes it, he pauses a moment, then swipes it sideways. As he proceeds onward his other foot crushes it further, and finally his tail catches hold of the car and drags it along with him out of the frame. It's a close-up shot, totally separate from the general action, and does nothing to further the plot. But its subconscious effects on the viewer add significantly to the overall effect of the movie. This time-consuming and expensive attention to realistic physicality was not at all common in B-grade monster-movies. At $5,000,000, this was one of the highest grossing films of 1953.

Price: 1749.95 USD

Location: Wake Forest, North Carolina

End Time: 2025-01-06T15:25:31.000Z

Shipping Cost: 39.95 USD