Does anyone remember The Giant Claw?
 

The Giant Claw is my favorite science fiction movie. In my opinion, it even ranked ahead of Them, which had my heroes Matt Dillon and Davy Crockett in it.

The Giant Claw is about a giant bird from outer space which comes from the North Pole and invades the U.S. and Canada. Our fighter planes attack it, but The Giant Claw gobbles them up. Just like the current invaders from China, it terrorizes everyone in the U.S.

As you can see in this preview, the special effects are first rate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOj0nXpRqX8

Never heard of it but seems to be worth a look.

Time to wash out the bong! But I do Love those old movies!

I’m surprised, Tal. :) Very good movie.

I absolutely remember that movie. It pops into my head every time I see any movie with a monster in it. The scene where they set up the cameras and it flies closer and closer until it is staring you in the face. Terrifying!! I was a kid when I saw it,

The special effects were, well, special.

I beg to differ. Them was much better. "Make me a sergeant in charge of the booze."

THEM came out when I was 9 years old and it scared the bejesus out of me, especially the whistling sound the ants would make just before they attacked.

The Giant Claw and Godzilla didn't scare me as much, maybe because I secretly wanted to be a big monster who could trash a big city. In case you wondered, No, I am not writing this message from prison.

Haven't seen that one.
My favorites are Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds and This Island Earth.

I have to watch it!

It is amazing that you can quote your favorite line from a 70 year old movie!
:BigApplause:

Shameless Confession:
 

Oh my, yes, Mr. Dillon -- my very first love -- from the very first day I saw him on that little black and white screen. Love at first sight.

I still watch him, as he is forever trapped in time, but now I get to see him on a 65 inch screen. Gotta love that intro scene. I just read that Mr. Dillon was shot 53 times (or was it 56?), stabbed 3 times, and poisoned once. (I don't know if the shootings counted the arrow that hit him a few weeks ago.)

I must now go find that movie you are talking about, although Fess Parker never did it for me. And besides — Matt’s hat was a whole lot better.

Boomer

This mission if you decide to accept it
 

here's matt dillon in the movie the thing and his famous brother

Space, the final frontier
 

great movies! May i add " b " movies like rodan, the h men and the mysterians
and i would be amiss to leave out it, the thing from outer space which was the movie that was the blueprint for the alien movies saga

great pick

The Blob with Steve McQueen that scared me because you can’t kill it they only froze it. We are safe now because the government dumped the blob at the North Pole. Then again who knows (global warming)….wahahahaha.

Yeah... that one is right up there with the likes of:
"Here's lookin' at you, kid."
"You talkin' to me?"
"I coulda been a contender."
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

When I read your post, that song popped into my head……[It creeps and leaps and slides and glides across the floor, right through the door and all around the wall, etc. :)

But I did not know until this morning that Burt Bacharach wrote that song.

I also learned from another post here that Peter Graves was Mr. Dillon’s brother.

Monday morning — and I have already learned two new things. :)

Btw, am I remembering right that there was something in The Blob about trying to fry it with high tension wires or some kind of big electrical thing?

Of all the old scary movies, the werewolves scared me most of all — and they were always jumping out from behind trees or something to add the startle effect. I once spent an entire werewolf movie with my coat over my head.

Boomer

Giant Claw
 

Ouch. Never heard of this, so watched the trailer. What a terrible hokey piece of "don't waste my time". Sorry, man!

War of the Worlds (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon and Them(1954) were 3 faves and scariest. Of course being 10 and 11 years old were part of the equation.

Yeah, you are exactly right! As we have gotten older, we have lost some of our ability to be fascinated with things like monster movies. That's why we love to think back to those days.

The Creature from Black lagoon was filmed up at Silver Springs. On the glass-bottom boat tour, they point out the exact cave where the creature lived when they filmed the movie.

In Them, the giant ants found a home in the drainage canals under Los Angeles. When they filmed the car race scene between Danny and 'Crater Face' in Grease, I was hoping one of the giant ants would jump out and grab one of them, but definitely not the beautiful Sandy.

Maybe I take these movies too seriously.

being the class movie-nerd, i've seen this. if anyone watches Svengoolie on MeTv, he's shown it a few times. a classic! :bowdown:

@ 1 of the horror conventions i've been to, i met the actor who does the underwater scenes from Creature/BlackLagoon. his name is Ricu Browning, and what a cool guy he is! we talked almost 45minutes, & he explained he was an expert diver, from either Russia or Ukraine, & had so many stories to tell about being on the set. i think he's still alive.

Help, i need somebody
 

Can't remember the name of this black and white 1950s B movie but it involves a couple going to a town where giant spiders were living in the cave and at the end they fought the giant spiders with electrical devices from the power lines

also another b movie i've lost for over 50 years where these astronauts are trapped in a cave and a blob like creature is growing and expanding its space and it's approaching the space for the astronauts . So they devise a way to kill it but i cannot remember it