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Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Louis Merrill
- Pierre Broussard
- (as Louis D. Merrill)
Frank Griffin
- Pete - Pilot
- (as Ruell Shayne)
Benjie Bancroft
- Civil Aeronautics Board Member
- (uncredited)
Brad Brown
- Pool Party Diver
- (uncredited)
Al Cantor
- AF Projectionist
- (uncredited)
George Cisar
- Admonishing Man on Airliner
- (uncredited)
Bud Cokes
- Civil Aeronautics Board Member
- (uncredited)
Leonard P. Geer
- Paramedic
- (uncredited)
Dabbs Greer
- Fighter Pilot, in clips from 'Mission Over Korea'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Sol Murgi
- Civil Aeronautics Board Member
- (uncredited)
Fred F. Sears
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaIn an interview, Jeff Morrow said that no one in the cast saw the title monster until they went to the film's premiere in Morrow's home town. Producer Sam Katzman had contracted with a low-budget model-maker in Mexico City to construct the "Giant Claw," and no one in the cast or crew had any idea it would come out looking as bizarre as it did. Morrow said the audience roared with laughter every time the monster made an appearance. He wound up slinking out of the theater in embarrassment before the film was over so no one who knew him would recognize him.
- GoofsDue to use of footage from Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), a flying saucer can very briefly be glimpsed in Grand Central Terminal during the bird's attack on New York City.
- ConnectionsEdited from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
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I haven't thought of this movie in years
I saw "The Giant Claw" several times on the Saturday afternoon creature feature in the late 60s and 70s. I LOVED IT!
This was before I started actually reading science fiction, and my friends and me really liked the science fiction movies that were being shown on the TV when you had about five channels. This movie ranks up there with "The Deadly Mantis" (giant praying mantis), "Them" (the giant ants), and "Tarantula" (the giant tarantula, of course). Being a kid growing up during the height of the space race, science fiction was always an "almost anything goes" genre to occupy a lazy afternoon. This movie is easily competitive with the Japanese monster movies, and I think that the creation of movies like this peaked out at "The Green Slime" (1968).
All you have to do is turn off your brain and throw out your "willing suspension of disbelief." It's just a plain old fun movie, good for everyone to watch on a rainy day. And if it would ever be shown again, I can watch it with popcorn AND a beer.
This was before I started actually reading science fiction, and my friends and me really liked the science fiction movies that were being shown on the TV when you had about five channels. This movie ranks up there with "The Deadly Mantis" (giant praying mantis), "Them" (the giant ants), and "Tarantula" (the giant tarantula, of course). Being a kid growing up during the height of the space race, science fiction was always an "almost anything goes" genre to occupy a lazy afternoon. This movie is easily competitive with the Japanese monster movies, and I think that the creation of movies like this peaked out at "The Green Slime" (1968).
All you have to do is turn off your brain and throw out your "willing suspension of disbelief." It's just a plain old fun movie, good for everyone to watch on a rainy day. And if it would ever be shown again, I can watch it with popcorn AND a beer.
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- dmorgan-31
- Oct 16, 2007
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- The Mark of the Claw
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- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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