The Giant Claw

The Giant Claw
  • Release date: 1 Jun 1957
  • Release year: 1957
  • Runtime: 75 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: anti matter, giant egg, muonic atom, giant bird, supersonic speed, radar, french canadian, panic, outer space, unintentional humor
Plot:
The Giant Claw is about a "flying battleship" terrorizing the world's skies. First discovered by an electrical engineer in the North Pole, the action picks up quickly with the monster attacking an Air Force and a Navy fighter plane. After a stopover in Quebec where a French Canadian, Pierre, notices what he calls "la carcagne", the audience finally gets a close up of the monster in all it's hilarious marionette glory. The "flying battleship" is actually an extraterrestrial bird of enormous size with an anti-gravity shield protecting it from all earthly weaponry. After the electrical engineer discovers that the bird can be stopped with the use of a "mu particle", and the UN building is destroyed, the monster is destroyed and sinks into the ocean below.
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