La garra gigante (1957)
Mitch MacAfee es miembro del equipo técnico que está probando un nuevo radar para el ejército. Un día, mientras vuela, ve un OVNI que da varias vueltas alrededor de su avión. Tras la señal de alerta, muchos escuadrones intentan interceptar el objeto sin éxito. Los militares creen que ha sido una falsa alarma de Mitch, pero empiezan a llegar numerosos informes de aviones desaparecidos en la zona. Cuando Mitch y la matemática Sally Caldwell regresan a la ciudad, son atacados por el OVNI y se estrellan. Tras ser rescatados por un lugareño, éste les habla de "La Cacanya", un ser mitológico alado que surca los cielos. Cuando Mitch y Sally llegan por fin a la ciudad, se enteran de que hay más informes de aviones desaparecidos y de que el ejército ha logrado fotografiar el objeto. Se trata de una gran nave alienígena, aparentemente indestructible, que sigue en sus ataques un rumbo definido. Todo hace suponer que pronto llegará a Nueva York.
Directora:
Fred F. Sears
Escritores:
Samuel Newman, Paul Gangelin.
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Jeff Morrow as Mitchell 'Mitch' MacAfee |
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Mara Corday as Sally Caldwell |
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Morris Ankrum as Lt. Gen. Edward Considine |
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Louis Merrill as Pierre Broussard |
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Edgar Barrier as Dr. Karol Noymann |
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Robert Shayne as Gen. Van Buskirk |
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Frank Griffin as Pete - Pilot |
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Clark Howat as Maj. Bergen |
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Morgan Jones as Lieutenant, Radar Officer |
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Benjie Bancroft as Civil Aeronautics Board Member (uncredited) |
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Brad Brown as Pool Party Diver (uncredited) |
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Al Cantor as AF Projectionist (uncredited) |
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George Cisar as Admonishing Man on Airliner (uncredited) |
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Bud Cokes as Civil Aeronautics Board Member (uncredited) |
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Leonard P. Geer as Paramedic (uncredited) |
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Dabbs Greer as Fighter Pilot, (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Sol Murgi as Civil Aeronautics Board Member (uncredited) |
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Fred F. Sears as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
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Robert B. Williams as First State Trooper (uncredited) |
| Writing | Samuel Newman | Screenplay |
| Directing | Fred F. Sears | Director |
| Writing | Paul Gangelin | Screenplay |
| Camera | Benjamin H. Kline | Director of Photography |
| Production | Sam Katzman | Producer |
| Art | Paul Palmentola | Art Direction |
| Art | Sidney Clifford | Set Decoration |
| Editing | Saul A. Goodkind | Editor |
| Editing | Anthony DiMarco | Editor |
| Sound | George Antheil | Music |
| Crew | George J. Teague | Special Effects |
| Directing | Leonard Katzman | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Mischa Bakaleinikoff | Music |
| Sound | Jacques Belasco | Music |
| Sound | George Duning | Music |
| Sound | Marlin Skiles | Music |
| Crew | Ralph Hammeras | Special Effects |
| Sound | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco | Music |
| Sound | John Leipold | Music |
| Sound | Max Steiner | Music |
| Sound | J.S. Westmoreland | Sound |
| Crew | Rookie Johnson | Cableman |
| Crew | Lawrence W. Butler | Special Effects |
| Production | Paul Sperling | Production Coordinator |
| Camera | Emil Oster | Camera Operator |
