The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)

Film details

Featuring

Tim Holt Audrey Dalton Hans Conried
Country

USA
Year

1957
Genres

Horror Science Fiction
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Enormous molluscs appear from an inland Californian lake and work their way by underground channel to State canal. Victims include U.S. Navy divers, bathers and an old lock-keeper. The menacing colony is eventually destroyed by explosives.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Lt Commander John Twillinger
    
    Tim Holt
  - Gail MacKenzie
    
    Audrey Dalton
  - Dr Jess Rogers
    
    Hans Conried
  - Jody Sims
    
    Barbara Darrow
  - Dr Tad Johns
    
    Adams, Casey
  - Lt Bob Clemens
    
    Harlan Warde
  - Sheriff Josh Peters
    
    Gordon Jones
  - Sandy MacKenzie
    
    Mimi Gibson
  - Connie Blake
    
    Marjorie Stapp
  - Seaman Fred Johnson
    
    Jody McCrea
  - Sally
    
    Eileen Harley
  - [Seaman Howard Sanders]
    
    William Swan
  - [Wyatt]
    
    Charles Tannen
  - [George Blake]
    
    Dennis McCarthy
  - [coroner]
    
    Byron Kane
  - [Mr Davis]
    
    Hal Taggart
  - [Mort Beatty]
    
    Bob Beneveds
  - [Captain Masters]
    
    Mack Williams
  - [Lewis Clark Dobbs]
    
    Milton Parsons
  - [old gatekeeper]
    
    Ralph Moody
  - [Clarke]
    
    Michael Dugan
  - [Deputy Scott]
    
    Gilbert Frye
  - [Deputy Brewer]
    
    Dan Gachman
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Directed by
    
    Arnold Laven
  - ©
    
    Gramercy Pictures
  - Produced by
    
    Jules V. Levy
  - Produced by
    
    Arthur Gardner
  - Production Assistant
    
    Virginia Mazzuca
  - Underwater Sequences Directed by
    
    Paul Stader
  - Assistant Director
    
    Maurice Vaccarino
  - Dialogue Director
    
    Harlan Warde
  - Casting
    
    Kerwin Coughlin
  - Screenplay by
    
    Pat Fielder
  - From a story by
    
    David Duncan
  - Director of Photography
    
    White, Lester
  - Underwater Sequences Photographed by
    
    Charles S. Welborn
  - Special Effects Created by
    
    Lohman, August
  - [Special Effects] Designed by
    
    Haworth, Edward S.
  - [Special Effects] Cinematography by
    
    Robert H. Crandall
  - Film Editor
    
    Faure, John D.
  - Art Director
    
    Vance, James
  - Set Decoration by
    
    Rudy Butler
  - Makeup Artist
    
    Abe Haberman
  - Music Composed and Conducted by
    
    Heinz Roemheld
  - Sound Recording
    
    Charles Althouse
  - Sound Recording
    
    Joel Moss
  - Underwater Sequences Technical Advisor
    
    Norman Bishop
  - Underwater Equipment by
    
    Healthways