Rating: NR
Genre: Science Fiction
Release Date: 07/31/2007
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 165 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures

One of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen's pre-Seventh Voyage of Sinbad efforts, 20 Million Miles to Earth borrows a few pages from King Kong. An American spaceship crashlands off the coast of Sicily. The rescue party discovers that the astronauts have inadvertently brought back a curious gelatinous mass from the planet Venus. This lump of goo rapidly evolves into be a living reptilian creature, which scientists label an "Ymir". While being subjected to laboratory experimentation, the Ymir begins growing by leaps and bounds, and before long the gigantic monstrosity has escaped and is wreaking havoc in Rome. After battling a zoo elephant and taking a swim in the Tiber, the gargantuan creature holes up in the Colosseum, where the film's pyrotechnic finale occurs.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
William Hopper - Calder
Joan Taylor - Marisa
Frank Puglia - Dr. Leonardo
John Zaremba - Dr. Judson Uhl
Thomas Brown Henry - Gen. A.D. McIntosh
Tito Vuolo - Comisario of Police
Jan Arvan - Signore Contino
Arthur Space - Sharman
Bart Bradley - Pepe
George Pelling - Mr. Maples
George Khoury - Verrico
Don Orlando - Mondello
Rollin Moriyama - Dr. Koruku

Production:
Nathan Juran - Director
Charles H. Schneer - Producer
Mischa Bakaleinikoff - Composer
Edwin H. Bryant - Editor
Bob Williams Christopher Knopf - Screen Writer
Robert Priestley - Set Designer
Cary O'Dell - Art Director
Irving Lippman - Cinematographer
Lambert Day - Sound/Sound Designer
Ray Harryhausen - Special Effects
Charlotte Knight - Screen Story

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