The Giant Claw
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Lobby card for the film The Giant Claw
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| Directed by | Fred F. Sears |
| Produced by | Sam Katzman |
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| Music by | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
| Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline |
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Clover Productions
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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75 minutes |
| Language | English |
The Giant Claw (also known as The Mark of the Claw) is a 1957 science fiction giant monster film about a giant bird that terrorizes the world. Produced by Sam Katzman and released by Columbia Pictures, The Giant Claw was directed by Fred F. Sears; both Sears and Katzman were well known as low-budget B film genre filmmakers. The film starred Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday. The film was released theatrically in 1957 on a double bill with The Night the World Exploded.
Mitch MacAfee (Jeff Morrow), a civil aeronautical engineer, while engaged in a radar test flight near the North Pole, spots an unidentified flying object. Three jet fighter aircraft are scrambled to pursue and identify the object but one aircraft goes missing. Officials are initially angry at MacAfee over the loss of a pilot and jet over what they believe to be a hoax.
When MacAfee and his mathematician girlfriend Sally Caldwell (Mara Corday) fly back to New York, their aircraft also comes under attack by a UFO. With their pilot dead, they crash-land in the Adirondacks, where Pierre Broussard (Louis Merrill), a French-Canadian farmer, comes to their rescue. MacAfee's report is met with bewilderment and scepticism but the military authorities are forced to take his story seriously after several other aircraft disappear. They discover that a gigantic bird "as big as a battleship", purported to come from an antimatter galaxy, is responsible for all the incidents. MacAfee, his girlfriend, Dr. Karol Noymann (Edgar Barrier), Gen. Considine (Morris Ankrum) and Gen. Van Buskirk (Robert Shayne) work feverishly to develop a way to defeat the seemingly invincible enemy.
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