This was the first time producer Charles H. Schneer and visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen teamed together for a movie-a teaming that would mostly last till 1981. In this one, Harryhausen does model stop-motion animation on a giant octopus (or "sixtopus" as he couldn't do all eight tentacles!) for quite a few good scare scenes including the climax at the Golden Gate Bridge. And there's a good story involving a Navy officer, a scientist and his female associate (played by Faith Domergue who I last saw in Where Danger Lives). I initially watched this on the Internet Archive which kept starting and stopping and also went off-synch after a while till it stopped as the last 30 minutes were forthcoming. So I went to another site which was colorized (which looked good) and finished it there. Anyway, on that note, I recommend It Came from Beneath the Sea.
Review of It Came from Beneath the Sea
It Came from Beneath the Sea
(1955)
Ray Harryhausen does it again with It Came from Beneath the Sea!
7 October 2020