46.2 The Giant Monster Movies of 1957, feat. Patrick Ripoll of 96 Greers (2 of 3)

FROM THE FROZEN WASTES OF THE ARCTIC TO THE DEPTHS OF THE AFRICAN JUNGLE, THE ARID DESERTS OF MEXICO, AND THE AMERICAN MIDWEST THEY CAME…

Welcome to part two of Gabe and Patrick’s look back at the biggest year in giant monster movie history. We’ve got a lot of big bugs this time, including Nathan H. Juran’s The Deadly Mantis, the wasps of Kenneth G. Crane’s The Monster from Green Hell, ocean mollusks of Arnold Laven’s The Monster that Challenged the World, and locusts of Bert I. Gordon’s The Beginning of the End. For good measure, we also talk about the really big bird from the antimatter universe seen in Fred F. Sears’ The Giant Claw and the mutated monster man of Gordon’s The Cyclops.

 

Remember to also check out part one, which covers Nathan H. Juran’s 20 Million Miles to Earth, Roger Corman’s Attack of the Crab Monsters, Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man, and Kurt Neumann’s Kronos. We recorded this in two parts and I apologize for a change in audio quality that occurs at the beginning and middle of this middle part. 

 

Here’s the full Letterboxd list we are working from: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/1957-giant-monster-movies/

 

00:00 – Intro and corrections

5:32 – The Deadly Mantis

25:24 – The Monster from Green Hell

43:16 – The Giant Claw

56:55 – The Monster that Challenged the World

1:17:43 – Beginning of the End

1:39:40 – The Cyclops

1:56:24 – Outro

 

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