Il drago degli abissi

Titolo originale: Behemoth, the Sea Monster
Regia: Douglas Hickox | Eugène Lourié |
Anno: 1959
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Fantascienza
Tag: london, england | monster | river thames | radiation | giant monster | paleontologist | radium | cornwall, england | laboratory | dinosaur | black and white | sea monster | monster movie |
Cast: Gene Evans | André Morell | Leigh Madison | John Turner | Alastair Hunter | Lloyd Lamble | Jack MacGowran | Maurice Kaufmann | Henri Vidon | Patrick Jordan | Howard Lang | Leonard Sachs | Ernest Blyth | Neal Arden | Paul Beradi | Max Faulkner | Neil Hallett | André Maranne | Derren Nesbitt | Guy Standeven |

Lo scienziato americano Steve Karnes, insieme al collega Bickford, indaga sulla misteriosa morte di un pescatore, avvenuta in un villaggio della Cornovaglia in concomitanza con una strana, improvvisa e inspiegabile moria di pesci.

Errori

The shots of the police car rushing to Bickford's house in the middle of the night show a 1930s mode [...] D
Shadow sweeps over the old man dying as he gasps his last words. D
When Karnes and Bickford are interviewing the village doctor, he says: "The man was dying when I got [...] D
The creature that attacks the ferry and is seen by Karnes in the fishing boat looks nothing like the [...] D
Close-ups of the behemoth rampaging through London repeatedly show it passing by the same building. D
When the monster attacks the mini-sub, the close-up plainly shows the head of a completely different [...] D
When Karnes puts up the X-ray of the irradiated fish, the photo lab technician is behind him, over h [...] D
The monster is shown rearing up and crashing through Westminster Bridge into the river near Big Ben. [...] D
The naval officer in the radar center says that, because of the fog, it's unlikely Dr. Sampson and h [...] D
On the pamphlet listing the names of the attending scientists at Karnes' lecture, Bickford's name is [...] D
~45 minutes into the story, a helicopter is searching for the creature and numerous references are m [...] D
In the picture the police deliver to Professor Bickford, the Behemoth's footprint completely dwarfs [...] D
When Dr. Sampson learns that the dinosaur is still alive, he assumes that it must be in the Pacific. [...] D
When Karnes and Bickford first visit the fishing village, they can be seen standing in first positio [...] D
After the helicopter spots the Behemoth and the helicopter pilot says he is going down to investigat [...] D
In the scene where the behemoth crushes the car, the people seen running in the background keep free [...] D
Near the end when the Behemoth picks up and drops a car into the Thames, the wires supporting the ca [...] D
In the US version, the soldiers who arrive on the scene leave the jeep behind and run toward the mon [...] D
When the Behemoth destroys the ferry, the platform on which the head of the monster is attached is c [...] D
When the paleontologist Dr. Sampson walks toward the archival cabinet, all the drawers are closed, b [...] D
In the radio report for the missing vessel Valkyrie, it's described as a "steamship", which is a pas [...] D
When Karnes finishes dissecting the fish, which he suspects might be contaminated by radiation, he w [...] D
In the scene when Karnes is on the boat searching for the creature, he is using the wrong type of eq [...] D
When the monster comes ashore, a car with the license plate 911-MMF stops, the driver gets out and f [...] D
At the conference at the opening of the film, a delegate says the atomic tests occurred in the "most [...] D
In the establishing scene on board the ferry just before the monster attacks, the little girl with t [...] D
A helicopter looking for the monster in the ocean is blown up by the radioactivity emitted by the mo [...] D
When the behemoth is pushing the ferry, the supporting, floating platform that the model of the mons [...] D
Because of budget restraints, one shot of the monster smashing a model car is repeated no less than [...] D
After the Behemoth sinks the ferry, a dead man is shown floating in the water, his face scarred by t [...] D
When the old fisherman is hit by the Behemoth's radiation, he covers his face with his hands. When J [...] D
When the monster walks through the first city street, one shot shows people running away between sev [...] D
The admiral tells Prof. Bickford and Karnes that the Thames is completely guarded by radar and that [...] D
In several scenes of the crowds running from the monster, bystanders are visible watching the action [...] D
Whilst Karnes is aboard the fishing boat looking for Behemoth, a radio report says the Valkyrie has [...] D
During the on-land scenes of the monster chasing people down the street, there is a large license pl [...] D
Just before the monster first appears on a city street, a car drives onto the street and is stopped [...] D
When the Behemoth is attacking the ferry, the close shots show people running around the cars and tr [...] D
When Karnes is performing the first radio autograph, he waits until he has the fish set before setti [...] D
When Karnes is aboard the trawler, a wide shot shows him looking at a Geiger counter with a meter re [...] D
When the monster is about to attack on land, a man runs toward the camera wearing a dark trenchcoat. [...] D
As the monster walks through the city, it stops at the corner of a building and roars down at a grou [...] D
The type of helicopter changes completely when it's about to be destroyed. D
The long shots of Dr. Sampson's helicopter show a sleeker, narrower Sikorsky used for aerial surveil [...] D
The American title, "The Giant Behemoth", is redundant. Since one of the definitions for "behemoth" [...] D
Karnes asks for transportation back to London. The next shot is a single seat Hawker Sea Hawk jet fi [...] D
In the radium scene, we see the radium taken out of the oven, and being positioned to be put on the [...] D
After the ferry is sunk, a newspaper vendor is shown on the street calling out, "Extra! Extra! Monst [...] D
One of the people fleeing the Behemoth is the kid in the black sweater, who was killed earlier in th [...] D