My husband watches television to relax.
And while he’s usually knee deep in the news or old westerns, occasionally there will be a bit of classic cinema thrown into the mix.
Last week?
It was The Giant Claw.
Alternate title? When Dr. Seuss goes horribly wrong.
I mean come on.
Only a mother could love that face.
Description
Engineer Mitch MacAfee (Jeff Morrow) spots a UFO while directing a study at the North Pole. But when the Air Force arrives they find nothing on radar, throwing Mitch’s reputation into doubt. But soon many airplanes are reporting attacks by a UFO, which turns out to be a giant speeding bird from outer space. Along with mathematician Sally Caldwell (Mara Corday), Mitch tries to determine a way to stop the bird, which has a force field that renders all weapons useless.
Yup. It was a classic.
Big Bird terrorizes New York.
Here he is attacking the United Nations.
1950’s people were running.
Which seemed to please the bird to no end.
Airplanes?
Yeah, he liked those too.
But never fear, these scientists will save the day.
The world is counting on them.
Bird was not impressed.
But look at all those high tech tubes and toggle switches!
It was only a matter of time.
The Giant Claw was toast…
And slowly sunk into the Hudson River.
Classic!
And, in the 50s, nothing survived being in the Hudson for very long.
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Even Godzilla avoided the Hudson..
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um
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That’s all you got?
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….today. Yes. I need a vaca.
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I quite want to see this now
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I’ve always been a sucker for those cheesy monster movies. Godzilla FTW!
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Me too. And the funniest part is how serious they tried to be..
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Too bad they killed him. We could have used a good ole attack at the Capitol Building to scatter all the kids (supposedly our leaders) out of the sandbox that they fight in all day.
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Maybe he had a son….
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It’s like a Thanksgiving Godzilla. I love the way they used clay, puppets and string for these old videos. They should remake modern horror movies like “Shark-nado” this way!
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It was a riot. I couldn’t stop laughing…
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I don’t know if I even want to hear it but how do YOU define classic???
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Classic cheese.
Classic camp.
Classic 1950’s horror.
😉
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I’d run, too, if that thing were dropping random ‘bombs’ around New York.
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Can you imagine finding that mess on your car windshield?
😳
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I do love me some campy old film classics!
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Well, it’s no Attack of the Giant Leeches… but still good fun.
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The Hudson? Was their a Giant Claw Tax? Did he have to pay the $20 entry into NY fee? Isn’t that where King King strangled Godzilla?
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If you want to see a really good 1950s sci-fi movie, watch INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. It’s definitely not a time-waster like many of them (not that I have anything against wasting time if it keeps you or hubby out of trouble). 😉
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As if I haven’t seen that.
😉
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Oh my… how times have changed
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What? You mean you’re not appropriately terrified….
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Oh no! You’ve ruined it for me – I was going to watch that tonight! 😉
Glad to see they had at least one scientist who was a woman. I’m guessing she wasn’t the lead scientist, though. 😦
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She was strictly ornamental….
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I figured…
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