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Film / 1957
Attack of the Crab Monsters
Directed by
Roger Corman
A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.
The story
A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.
Cast
Richard GarlandDale Drewer
Pamela DuncanDr. Martha 'Marti' Hunter
Russell JohnsonHank Chapman
Leslie BradleyDr. Karl Weigand
Mel WellesJules Deveroux
Richard H. CuttingDr. James Carson
Beach DickersonSeaman Ron Fellows
Tony MillerSeaman Jack Sommers
Ed NelsonEnsign Quinlan
Charles B. GriffithSeaman Mac, wears sunglasses
Maitland StuartDiving-double for male cast
Robin RileyDiving-double for Pamela Duncan
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