- Actors: Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith, Dean Maddox Jr.
- Directors: Robert Gordon
- Writers: George Worthing Yates, Harold Jacob Smith
- Producers: Charles H. Schneer, Sam Katzman
- Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date: May 6 2003
- Run Time: 79 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00008OM1X
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #49,901 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Two years after unleashing The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms upon New York City, master special-effects creator Ray Harryhausen turned loose a giant (albeit six-armed) octopus on San Francisco, and the result is another enjoyable atom-age adventure that should please fans of vintage science fiction. Kenneth Tobey, who battled The Thing (From Another World) in 1951, stars as a Navy captain who pursues a monstrous octopoid (sextapoid?) after it attacks his atomic sub. After it wreaks havoc with shipping lanes, he tracks the creature to San Francisco for a final showdown. Scripting by George Worthing Yates (Them!) and Hal Smith and direction by Robert Gordon are perfunctory at best, which gives the always-reliable Tobey and co-star Faith Domergue little to do, but this is Harryhausen's show, and his monster, though budgetarily restrained, is still impressive. Younger audiences weaned on digital FX may find this creaky, but nostalgic viewers will enjoy its simple thrills. --Paul Gaita
Additional Features
As with Columbia/Tri-Star's other Harryhausen sci-fi & fantasy DVDs (which include Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and The Three Worlds of Gulliver), It Came from Beneath the Sea also includes the following extras: the original theatrical trailer; "The Harryhausen Chronicles," a 60-minute documentary on Harryhausen's films narrated by Leonard Nimoy; and "This Is Dynamation," a early '60s featurette that extols the virtues of Harryhausen's optical and special effects processes. --Paul Gaita
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Calamari with cheerios attached - a San Francisco treat,
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This review is from: It Came From Beneath the Sea (DVD)
"For centuries the mind of man has learned comparative little of the mysteries of the heavens above - or the seas below""Since the coming of the atomic age, man's knowledge has so increased that an upheaval of nature would not be beyond his belief." It is 1955 and the atom sub looks just like a ww2 diesel (at least it does not look like a cardboard mockup.) The latest sub is being chased by thing or things unknown; let's just say that "It Came from Beneath the Sea". Standard sci-fi for the time we have the obligatory romance between the captain, Cmdr. Pete Mathews (Kenneth Tobey) from "The Thing From Another World" (1951), and Prof. Lesleyl Joyce (Faith Domergue) from "This Island Earth" (1955). What a ménage à trios and Prof. John Carter (Donald Curtis) from several "Science Fiction Theater" (1955-1957) TV episodes. I just love sci-fi from this time because they inevitably depend of flame throwers to do the trick as in "The deadly Mantis" and "Them!" Naturally no one believes them until they get eaten. Others think they have the situation in hand. Will we be able to handle "IT"? And will there be a next time? Six tentacle monster by Ray Harryhausen; "Clash of the Titans" (1981). Screen play by Hal Smith, and George Worthing Yates. Faith Domergue, by God.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Ray himself found the movie lacking.....,
By A Customer
This review is from: It Came From Beneath the Sea (DVD)
This was another movie where the budget was so small, Ray had to sacrifise the quality of the story for more cheaper production issues. The design of the creature was also limited, the budget being what it was, Ray only designed the octopus with six arms. and tried to maintain that the other two arms were underwater (Okay). They also never got permission to actually film in San Franciso, so they filmed all the out door scenes from the back of a bakery truck that drove all over the city and over the Golden Gate Bridge, the rest of the movie was shot either on other locations or on sound stages. As a result, this movie really was not much different then other B-movie monster pictures that were made at the time, and for Ray, to this day, he still maintains that the movie was not one of his better films.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Film But More Bland Than Most Harryhausen Films,
By Kent (Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: It Came From Beneath the Sea (DVD)
I had never seen the film until this past week when I picked it up at a local Borders store for $15. To tell you the truth, I had some high hopes for the films, but like most monster films of the era, the monster's time was limited and short. So I wasn't expecting too much.The film starts out pretty slow with Ken Tobey and his sub crew trying to figure out what they got themselves caught up in (the octopus). The human parts of the film are like any other monster film where a man falls in love with a beautiful woman and they love each other in the end. The acting is pretty decent but seems to drag on for FAR too long! Plus the monster scenes were much shorter in this one compared to other Harryhausen films which was disappointing. Overall, the film does deliver and is an enjoyment. But the overdone human drama and very few scenes of the octopus make this movie somewhat dull. A good film, but not one of Harryhausen's best as far as entertainment value.
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