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Drive-in advertisement from 1957 for 20 Million Miles to Earth and co-feature, The 27th Day.. The film was based on a concept by Ray Harryhausen called The Giant Ymir. [1]20 Million Miles to Earth began production in Rome, Italy in September 1956, using only William Hopper of the main cast, and moved to the U.S. from October 30 to November 9 of that year. [2]
The Ymir from 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) Harryhausen then returned to Columbia and Charles Schneer to make 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), about an American spaceship returning from the planet Venus. The spaceship crashes into the sea near Sicily, releasing an on-board alien egg specimen which washes up on shore. The egg soon hatches a ...
Earth's surface is the boundary between the atmosphere, and the solid Earth and oceans. Defined in this way, it has an area of about 510 million km 2 (197 million sq mi). [12] Earth can be divided into two hemispheres: by latitude into the polar Northern and Southern hemispheres; or by longitude into the continental Eastern and Western hemispheres.
(1954), Godzilla (1954), The Deadly Mantis (1957), 20 Million Miles to Earth, The Giant Claw (both 1957), The Giant Behemoth (1959), Gorgo (1961), and Gamera, the Giant Monster (1965). Homages to the creature appear in media such as a 1956 issue of the comic book series Batman , the 1970 film When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth , and the comic book ...
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Harryhausen continued to gain popularity for his efforts on monster movies such as It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) and 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957). He eventually decided to venture into other genres, accepting that Godzilla and other Japanese kaiju movies were making the giant monster genre "tiresome". [51]
Earth's circumference is the distance around Earth. Measured around the equator, it is 40,075.017 km (24,901.461 mi). Measured passing through the poles, the circumference is 40,007.863 km (24,859.734 mi). [1] Treating the Earth as a sphere, its circumference would be its single most important measurement. [2]
$1.7 million (US) [2] It Came from Beneath the Sea is a 1955 American science fiction monster horror film from Columbia Pictures , produced by Sam Katzman and Charles Schneer , directed by Robert Gordon , that stars Kenneth Tobey , Faith Domergue , and Donald Curtis .