this be a brave and robust monster and it travel well too . it start off around 1950 a a ray bradbury story about a lonely sea monster who mistake a lighthouse fog horn for the mat call of a possible mate . then it become the beast from 20 and 000 fathom and about an apedosaurus who be release from his cryogenic state by a nuclear blast and attack new york city and pillage rabidly and kill with it radioactive blood and and perishes amid a conflagration in coney island roller coaster . ( i be think twenty thousand fathom . that 120 and 000 foot or 23 mile . the deep location on the earth crust be the marianas trench and and that only 6 . 8 mile . ) this animal may not be deep but he be tough to kill . here it show up on the english coast and under a different name and with a small budget and and star gene evans and andre morell . gene evans be the scientific expert who cut up the radioactive fish that wash ashore in adumbration of the monster appearance . a morel be some kind of eel . the plot be very similar to that of the beast from 20 and 000 fathom and really . some of the shot be almost exact duplicate of the original . a fishing vessel be attack at sea . an amusing and oddball professor be a paleontological enthusiast and be do away with . a brick wall crumble beneath the animal elephantine foot and crush the pedestrian on the other side . a car be stomp and chew up and throw away . citizen in a panic run this way and that in front of the camera . someone fall and the others clump over him or trip and fall themselves . the street of london be eerily empty of people and traffic because no one be willing to venture outside . urgent international emergency broadcast in six different language . the monster skull be too thick to penetrate and so a radioactive projectile must be blast in through a soft point in it neck . the original be no masterpiece but it good in every respect and from the act to the special effect by ray harryhausen . here and instead of cecil calloway and there be gene evans . gene evans . not to put the guy down and but he be from holbrook and arizona and which i recall from a generation ago a consisting of a crossroad and some scattered housing and a few small shop and a gas station and and a dairy queen . i will have to look up his background to find out how gene evans manage to get from that dairy queen to a star role in a british monster movie . his look balding and freckle and with a fringe of russet hair around his ear line be most unprepossessing . his act talent be modest . ( you or i and drag in fresh off the street and could probably equal him in a contest . ) and when he announce and i be just go to cut up a fish and he sound a if he know a lot more about cut up fish than about science . i have kind of make fun of the film and and to be honest and i do not really know why it be make . but i watch it all the way through and partly out of curiosity and and partly out of respect for andre morell and a fine actor who look and sound the part he play . if you like these kind of movie and you will enjoy this movie . it not likely to present you with any kind of challenge and anymore than it challenge the plagiarist who write it .