It Came From Beneath The Sea
Science Fiction
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (1955) 79 mins Approved

5.7 (1,067 votes)
In Ray Harryhausen's vintage sci-fi thriller, a giant, radioactive octopus makes the deadly mistake of attacking Navy Captain Pete Mathews' (Kenneth Tobey) submarine, prompting the bold commander to pursue the monstrous beast across the Pacific Ocean before it attacks anyone else.

But as the military races to develop a special torpedo that will penetrate the mutated octopus's brain and destroy it, the eight armed monstrosity suddenly discovers how to survive on land, wreaking havoc first on the Golden Gate Bridge and then in the Embarcadero, sending the terrified citizens of San Francisco running for their lives....

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Cast and Crew
Kenneth Tobey  ......  Cmdr. Pete Mathews
Faith Domergue  ......  Prof. Lesley Joyce
Donald Curtis  ......  Dr. John Carter
Ian Keith  ......  Adm. Burns
Dean Maddox Jr.  ......  Adm. Norman
Chuck Griffiths  ......  Lt. Griff, USN
Director  .....  Robert Gordon
Producer  .....  Charles H. Schneer
Writer  .....  George Worthing Yates; Hal Smith
Notes
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the octopus's tentacles are waving behind and over one of the buildings near the Embarcadero, the tentacles cannot be seen through the building's open windows. (more)

Trivia:
The "atom-powered" submarine shown cruising on the surface is actually the diesel-electric submarine USS Cubera (SS-347). (more)

Filming Locations:
Imperial County, California, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Narrator: From her beginnings on a Navy drawing board, through the months of secret field experiments out on the Western desert, then through the desperate search for new metals with the properties she needed, she was designed to be the nation's greatest weapon of the seas - the atom-powered submarine...
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