A superevolved gorilla with a space helmet(side-splitting funny), remote sensing device to locate people, the music that greatly overmatched the general terribleness...
This movie is very entertaining. Don't know how it did in 1953, but if possible, I would have been in the theater for the original release!
You'd be amazed, but this movie didn't tank at the box office. If anything it was a HUGE success. It was done on a 16,000 dollar budget and made over a million in its initial run. We're talking a profit ratio of 62.5:1 here.
Heck if I was in 1953... yeah, why not, I might even laugh at it. Though during the 50's, the only 'scary' part is the use of hydrogen bombs against each other. During the Cold War, the use of nuclear weapons was always a looming threat.
Yeah, I like this movie very much and would have gone to the theater to see it in 1953.
share