The Beast (1996 film)
| The Beast | |
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| Based on |
Beast by Peter Benchley |
| Screenplay by | J.B. White |
| Directed by | Jeff Bleckner |
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| Music by | Don Davis |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) |
Peter Benchley Dan Wigutow |
| Running time | 176 minutes |
| Distributor | NBC |
| Release | |
| Original release | April 28, 1996 - April 29, 1996 |
The Beast is a 1996 television movie starring William Petersen, Karen Sillas and Charles Martin Smith. Aired in two parts as a miniseries, the movie is based on the 1991 novel Beast by Jaws author Peter Benchley. The film is about a giant squid that attacks and kills several people when its food supply becomes scarce and its offspring is killed.
It was filmed primarily in New South Wales, Australia.
The film begins when a couple disappear while having a romantic night out on a yacht near the Pacific Northwest resort community, Graves' Point. The next day, local fisherman Whip Dalton (William Petersen) finds the empty lifeboat from the missing yacht and discovers a large claw stuck into the boat. Whip sends the claw to a university to be analyzed and it ends up in the hands of marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley (Ronald Guttman), who comes to Grave’s Point claiming it is from the tentacle of a giant squid. The island harbor master Schuyler Graves (Charles Martin Smith) hires Lucas Coven (Larry Drake) to kill the squid after Whip's initial refusal. Coven succeeds in slaying a squid and the carcass is promptly sold by Graves to Sea Land Texas owner Osborne Manning (Denis Arndt). The unmanned sonar detects another, much larger squid which remains unnoticed by the islanders.
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