What is The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox Film | name = The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | director = Eugène Lourié | producer = Jack Dietz<br>Hal E. Chester | screenplay = Fred Freiberger<br>Eugène Lourié<br>Louis Morheim<br>Robert Smith | starring = Paul Christian<br>Paula Raymond<br>Cecil Kellaway<br>Kenneth Tobey | music = David Buttolph | cinematography = Jack Russell | editing = Bernard W. Burton | studio = [[Warner Bros.]] | distributor = Premier Productions | released = June 13, 1953 | runtime = 80 minutes | country = [[United States]] | language = [[English language|English]] | budget = $210,000<ref>James Van Hise, ''Hot Bloodied Dinosaur Movies''. Pioneer Books, 1993. Pg.102</ref> | gross = $5,000,000 }} '''''The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms''''' is a 1953 [[science fiction movie|science fiction]] [[monster movie]]. It was released on June 13, 1953, by Premier Productions. It was produced by [[Warner Bros.]] It made over $5 million,<ref>John JJ Johnson, ''Cheap Tricks and Class Acts: Special Effects, Makeup and stunts from the films of the Fantastic Fifties''. McFarland & Company, 1995. Pg.61</ref> including $2.25 million in the [[United States]] in its first year.<ref>'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', ''Variety'', January 13, 1954</ref> The movie was the first movie to show a [[monster]] being woken up or created by an explosion from an [[atomic bomb]]. Its success helped cause the creation of more monster movies in the 1950s such as ''[[Godzilla]]''. ==Plot== An atomic bomb test in the [[Arctic Circle]] wakes up a sleeping [[dinosaur]], the [[fictional]] ''Rhedosaurus''. After being woken up, it destroys [[New York City]] before being killed at [[Coney Island]]. ==Cast== {{col-begin}}{{col-break}} * Paul Christian as Professor Tom Nesbitt * Paula Raymond as Lee Hunter * Cecil Kellaway as Dr. Thurgood Elson * Kenneth Tobey as Colonel Jack Evans * Donald Woods as Captain Phil Jackson * Ross Elliott as George Ritchie * Steve B