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It Came from Beneath the Sea
It Came from Beneath the Sea is a 1955 American science fictionmonsterhorror film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Sam Katzman and Charles Schneer, directed by Robert Gordon, that stars Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, and Donald Curtis. The screenplay by George Worthing Yates was designed to showcase the stop motion animationspecial effects of Ray Harryhausen.
A monstrous giant octopus rampages along the west coast of North America after becoming too radioactive from nuclear testing in the South Pacific for it to be able to hunt its natural prey in the Mindanao Deep.
It Came from Beneath the Sea was released as the top half of a double feature with Creature with the Atom Brain.