Twenty Million Miles To Earth - Trailer (1957)

[andy05011987]

the creature looks exactly like the Kraken in Clash of the Titans (1981)!

[Amadeus1066]

@andy05011987 That's because Ray Harryhuasen designed both creatures and did the special effects for both movies.

[RebelfireLives]

They really could stand to remake some of these great RH movies, this this one, Valley of Gwangi, hell even the Sinbad run. But I guess the Dynamation is part of the classic charm.

[susanbowes1]

Love Harryhausen!

[PatrikCOH]

*Reader: ...had landed on the planet Venus

*Woman: Venus?!

*Man: The planet Venus?

*facepalm*

[RebelfireLives]

@PatrikCOH

Epic observation.

[conewells]

Now HERE'S a movie that should be remade by an intelligent director- with vision! And don't even mess with the monster's look,. It's UNIQUE. And scary when pissed off.

[gadgetine007]

This was before my mom was born lol

[hydrolito]

When the monster was smaller he also fought a dog in the movie so in some ways was the reverse of the Incredible Shrinking man that fought a cat when small and a Spider when even smaller.

[ExtraterrestrialMind]

1:05 Astro propelled rocket? ...okaay.

[snakes3425]

General: The Rocket landed on Venus.

Reporter: Venus???

Other Reporter: The Planet Venus????

General: No the Venus De Milo, OF COURSE THE PLANET VENUS

[dltanner99]

Horror novel see video book trailer

[zelig46]

L'allievo ha superato il maestro, WilliS O'Brien vs Ray Harryhausen: Wins Ray

[priestpega]

@RangerAlways: Ray Harryhausen did not worked on King Kong(1933). In fact he was just boy and it was when he watched King Kong that he became obsessed with stopmotion animation. His first gig was assisting Willis O'Brien (Kong SPFX wizard) on "Mighty Joe Young"(1949). This is documented on all of Harryhausen's biographies.

[ftjax]

ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, sell this crap to the russians !

[MultiLegoDude]

Hmm all I can say is this is the worst title for this kind of movie ever even in the 50's.

[sutjas16]

@MultiLegoDude

maybe you haven't seen The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became mixed up zombies yes it's real look it up.

[hydrolito]

@MultiLegoDude So maybe they should have titled it More than 20 million miles to earth as Venus at it's closes to earth is more than 20 million miles but they just rounded it down to 20 million what name would you give it Ymir what's an Ymir? I think "It Came from outer Space" was used as a title of another movie so they couldn't use that, "The Colloso beast" was a sequel to "The Colloso man" so they couldn't use maybe they could call it "The growing Monster" huh? What title should they use?

[MultiLegoDude]

@hydrolito I haven't got a clue but there are much better titles then 'Twenty Million Miles To Earth' though saying that they could have picked a much worse title. 

[MrPyrateking]

I think they should remake this movie and make the monster more scarier,more smarter and more stronger.Another thing is they should add blood and gore to the remake of 20 Million Miles to Earth like giving the monster the taste for human flesh and showing people slashed to death by the monster and getting eaten by it. So add blood and gore to the remake of 20 Million Miles to Earth.

[sutjas16]

@MrPyrateking

that just sounds like an awful idea

[Mality]

@MrPyrateking All remakes suck. This movie works because you feel sorry for the creature. Look at the mess they made of "Day The Earth Stood Still".

[hydrolito]

@Mality The redid Wizard of Oz in 1939 with color and sound, Hunch Back of Notredame, Ben Hur all these were good remakes it's only some of the recent remakes that suck. The Chronicles of Narnia were done before with Cartoon monsters but the recents ones with computer generated images seem pretty good. They could rerelease a colorized version or if done correctly a recent remake maybe Speilberg or someone who respects the original.

[hydrolito]

@Mality Think the movie where you felt sorry for the creature was Gorgo about a baby sea monster (sort of resembled Abomination in Hulk comics not movie version) captured by fishermen and put on display in London and rescued by it's mother that stomps through London and returns to the sea.

[hydrolito]

@MrPyrateking The idea of an alien monster eating people didn't they do that in a movie called Alien? So was Alien inspired by this movie?

[theSicilianToe]

@hydrolito alien was inspired by a species of wasp that lays its larva in the body of a host and it eventually eats its way through the host.

[RangerAlways]

Ray Harryhausen was an assiatant on the 1933 King Kong. His 1st production was Mighty Joe Young in which he used the same ape mini as Kong but made him more appealing. Took him 3 mos. to produce the few minutes in Jason & Argonauts duel with the 7 skeletons but stepped out again with the 7 headed hydra. The man was genius.

[4everfrankenstein]

@RangerAlways Not true.Ray Harryhausen was just a boy when KONG came along and changed his life. He became obsessed w/ stop-motion which led to his finally meeting the great Willis O'Brien (Kong's animator). You are correct about one thing, however-re: Harryhausen's working w/ O'Brien on JOE YOUNG, but the stop motion ape model was not the same as Kong- it was a new sculpt by Marcel Delgado.

[Tareltonlives]

@RangerAlways He was not an assistant, actually. He watched it as a kid, and that's what got him into effects. He studied under Willis O'Brien in Mighty Joe Young, which had a different armature than Kong (more gorilla-like and cutesy). This particular film is an extraterrestrial tribute to King Kong, as the Ymir has a very similar character and situation (even his death is very similar)

[QuackerMan45]

how did harryhausen make the elephant being taken down by the monster?

[chriscross584]

@QuackerMan45 the elephant is acctually a relica model in some shots were he is killed

[QuackerMan45]

k got it

[QuackerMan45]

the monster is similar to the kraken in clash of the titans. faces are similar

[DinoDude16]

the monster in this movie had the best roar right next to godzilla's

[oldyuma]

Ray Harryhausen ROCKS...this scared the beejeesus out of this 7 year old when I first saw it...

[Spacecoastz]

They needed a bigger elephant.

[PureSolace]

Hell yeah! He fights an elephant!

[flattilre]

The planet Venus?

[davidnightingale]

Chapter 13 of the firefighters manual should be refered to in this case. Yes folks a real life manual has a section on dealing with aliens.

[APdocumentary]

cool video!

[revolutionpermin]

XY21 Landed on the planet Venus.

Venus?

The Planet Venus?

What great dialog in those days!

[brokencasket]

William Hopper before his Perry Mason days.....

[pylgrym]

I saw this at the fabulous FOX in St. Louis in 1957, on a double bill with "The 27th Day" - which was shown first. You can imagine my seven-year-old consternation! THANKS 20KK for posting this! Soon to be colorized by RAY himself!