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BS: I need the name of a film-man fights crab

30 Nov 05 - 07:06 AM (#1617074)
Subject: BS: I need the name of a film
From: GUEST

I saw this film when I was a child and I don't remember the name of it.
I only remember that it was set in the Prehistoric Age and a man was fighting with a huge crab. A Science fiction film
Thanks


30 Nov 05 - 07:14 AM (#1617078)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: John MacKenzie

Escape Claws
Giok


30 Nov 05 - 08:33 AM (#1617127)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Mr Red

Giok -
I think the name escapes me.

I did a search and Amazon hasn't got it.

But I do like the title............


30 Nov 05 - 09:03 AM (#1617151)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: jeffp

Would it be, "Mysterious Island?"

The one about the escapees from a American Civil War prison camp whose balloon crashes on the island. They battle a giant crab and end up tipping it into a fumarole, which cooks it. Giant crab feast follows. A real treat for this Maryland boy.

From the story (book?) by Jules Verne.


30 Nov 05 - 09:10 AM (#1617159)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Big Mick

I remember the film and believe that jeffp has the right of it. Mysterious Island DVD

Mick


30 Nov 05 - 09:22 AM (#1617169)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: jeffp

The giant baby chick was just silly, though.


30 Nov 05 - 09:24 AM (#1617172)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Fiolar

It's more likely to be "Attack of the Crab Monsters" (1957) which was directed by Roger Corman and starred Richard Garland and Ed Nelson among others. However there is also "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" (1970) which has several giant crabs attacking cave people on a beach before a tidal wave arrives.


30 Nov 05 - 12:41 PM (#1617339)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: John MacKenzie

If that's the size of his crabs, how large are his underpants?
G..


30 Nov 05 - 01:07 PM (#1617360)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Big Mick

Fiolar, he talks about knocking the crab into a hot springs and feasting on it. I think I recall that in Mysterious Island.


30 Nov 05 - 01:18 PM (#1617369)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: jeffp

Mick, I was the one talking about the feast, not the original poster.


30 Nov 05 - 01:25 PM (#1617372)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Big Mick

Thanks, Jeff. I think that Fiolar might be right on this, now that I reread the original post.

Mick


30 Nov 05 - 02:25 PM (#1617405)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Jerry Rasmussen

Having the crabs is far more frightening. I think it must be Mysterious Island. I've seen it on tv recently..

Jerry

Nothing can equal the terror of Night Of The Lupus, though

Jerry


30 Nov 05 - 11:03 PM (#1617788)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Cluin

Mysterious Island.

It sounds like a Ray Harryhausen project.


01 Dec 05 - 12:57 AM (#1617836)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Stilly River Sage

Sounds like there is more than one film with giant crabs!


01 Dec 05 - 07:48 AM (#1618006)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: GUEST,ivor

There's a film I'd like the name of. (Is that a separate thread?)

If not, all I remember is a couple tied to chairs in a jail and a snake (snakes) being let into the jailroom. Black and white, before 1957.

If anyone can help, I'd be grateful (and of course, amazed)


02 Dec 05 - 04:35 AM (#1618285)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: GUEST,ivor

refresh


02 Dec 05 - 11:23 AM (#1618569)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Cluin

You dream in black & white?


02 Dec 05 - 05:43 PM (#1618876)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: GUEST

If not, all I remember is a couple tied to chairs in a jail and a snake (snakes) being let into the jailroom. Black and white, before 1957.

It was entitled, "Adam and Eve: the other part of the story." XXXX rated.


03 Dec 05 - 04:47 PM (#1619465)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Joybell

OOOOOH! Jerry. Yes!! NO!! Nothing can!


04 Dec 05 - 05:24 AM (#1619680)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: autolycus

refresh


14 Dec 05 - 02:55 AM (#1626976)
Subject: RE: BS: I need the name of a film
From: Cluin

Except "Gargoyles".