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Title: Them
Review: "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" spends a lot of time reaching for plausibility. The producers brought in Kenneth Tobey -- "The Thing from Another World" -- to help get it off the ground. A little more of him in the film might have helped. We also get a food first glimpse of a very young Lee Van Cleef. If you want to know how they did monsters before computer graphics, the answer is Ray Harryhausen. He was the father of most today's movie special effects. The superb giant dinosaur in this movie is his creation."Them" is probably one of my all time favorites primarily because of the intergral way in which the monsters -- giant ants -- fit into the movie. There was no doubt that the movie was about Them and was among the first to blame perfect, giant mutations on atomic bomb radiation. I'd call it the classid B-grade sci-fi movie. An entertaining watch.
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