20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) starring William Hopper, Joan Taylor. Creature feature in which space ship returns from Venus, crashes in the Mediterranean. Aboard the ship only one man lives -- and a creature from Venus that the explorers have brought back to Earth. The creature hatches and grows into a reptilian beast that rampages through the streets of Rome. The special effects are courtesy of legendary FX wizard Ray Harryhausen; highlights include a fight between the creature and an elephant, and the finale at the Roman Colisseum. The script and the acting are definitely of poor quality. The DVD offers a choice of watching the movie in black-and-white or in the colorized version, which I thought was a plus. The English subtitles are very legible, as are the closed captions. Grade: C+
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