From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Mark Steese  writes:   
      
   >>>12:30 a.m. (PDT) The Giant Claw (1957) with Jeff Morrow (Exeter from   
   >>>This Island Earth) and Mara Corday (from The Black Scorpion from   
   >>>Season 1), and Morris Ankrum from a couple of episodes, including   
   >>>Rocketship X-M.  This is a good candidate for Joel and the CT crew.   
   >   
   >Before the monster shows up, the movie's just another cheesy '50s   
   >monster movie. But after the monster shows up...oh, man. In order to cut   
   >costs, the producers farmed out the special effects work to a Mexican FX   
   >company. Remember the special effects from the Mexican "Santa Claus"?   
   >Now imagine effects of that caliber used to create a monster that was   
   >ostensibly supposed to scare adults.   
      
   >It is *awesome*. It's right up there with Ro-Man and Guilala in the Hall   
   >of Bad Monster Fame.   
      
   	OK, preliminary reactions:   
   	- I love how this has the same first couple minutes as The   
   Deadly Mantis.   
      
   	- The attempt to give Protagonist Man personality by insisting   
   he kind of makes his own rules is almost endearingly clumsy, up to the   
   point they introduce spanking.  Then it gets to where you think people   
   these age could be my grandparents and eeeeew.   
      
   	- I love the shot of the jet plane flying backwards.   
      
   	- 'New York International Airport'.  Wow, haven't heard that   
   one since, like, 1941.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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