Popularity: 3 (history)
Director: | Fred F. Sears |
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Writer: | Samuel Newman, Paul Gangelin |
Staring: |
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture. | |
Release Date: | Jun 01, 1957 |
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Director: | Fred F. Sears |
Writer: | Samuel Newman, Paul Gangelin |
Genres: | Science Fiction, Horror |
Keywords | monster, canada, panic, giant bird, ufo, space, black and white, united nations, alien monster, french canadian |
Production Companies | Columbia Pictures, Clover Productions |
Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
Name | Character |
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Jeff Morrow | Mitchell 'Mitch' MacAfee |
Mara Corday | Sally Caldwell |
Morris Ankrum | Lt. Gen. Edward Considine |
Louis Merrill | Pierre Broussard |
Edgar Barrier | Dr. Karol Noymann |
Robert Shayne | Gen. Van Buskirk |
Frank Griffin | Pete - Pilot |
Clark Howat | Maj. Bergen |
Morgan Jones | Lieutenant, Radar Officer |
Benjie Bancroft | Civil Aeronautics Board Member (uncredited) |
Brad Brown | Pool Party Diver (uncredited) |
Al Cantor | AF Projectionist (uncredited) |
George Cisar | Admonishing Man on Airliner (uncredited) |
Bud Cokes | Civil Aeronautics Board Member (uncredited) |
Leonard P. Geer | Paramedic (uncredited) |
Dabbs Greer | Fighter Pilot, (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Sol Murgi | Civil Aeronautics Board Member (uncredited) |
Fred F. Sears | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
Robert B. Williams | First State Trooper (uncredited) |
Name | Job |
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Fred F. Sears | Director |
George Antheil | Music |
John Leipold | Music |
Max Steiner | Music |
Samuel Newman | Screenplay |
Paul Palmentola | Art Direction |
Sidney Clifford | Set Decoration |
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco | Music |
J.S. Westmoreland | Sound |
George J. Teague | Special Effects |
Lawrence W. Butler | Special Effects |
Paul Sperling | Production Coordinator |
Paul Gangelin | Screenplay |
Benjamin H. Kline | Director of Photography |
Anthony DiMarco | Editor |
Saul A. Goodkind | Editor |
Mischa Bakaleinikoff | Music |
Jacques Belasco | Music |
Marlin Skiles | Music |
Leonard Katzman | Assistant Director |
Ralph Hammeras | Special Effects |
Rookie Johnson | Cableman |
Emil Oster | Camera Operator |
George Duning | Music |
Name | Title |
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Sam Katzman | Producer |
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I'm not sure that if I'd been involved in this that I've have taken a credit at all, much less one of the multitude of big block capital ones that top this Kentucky Fried flop. It's all about planes that go missing - but radar can shed no light on the disappearances. Luckily, Jeff Morrow made it bac ... k to this island earth and together with "Sally" (Mara Corday) is trying to sort out the mystery for "Gen. Considine" (Morris Ankrum). Luckily, they have some balloons (the inflatable types not the writers) and they show us just what's been pecking at the USAF. Moreover, it appears to be extra-terrestrial and have some sort of radar bending ability so it can maraud at will, immune to everything the military can throw at it. What is it doing here? Has it a nefarious plan? I was surprised to see Morrow in this. He was never very good, but this is below the belt for just about everyone charged with delivering a terribly weak story supported by some frankly hilarious and not very special effects. If any Brits are watching they might remember Rod Hull and his "emu". This is reminiscent of that and really not worth the effort for an overlong seventy five minutes that could easily have been cut to fifteen.