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:
Paul Gangelin, Samuel Newman.
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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 | Paul Gangelin | Screenplay |
| Directing | Fred F. Sears | Director |
| Writing | Samuel Newman | Screenplay |
| Production | Sam Katzman | Producer |
| Camera | Benjamin H. Kline | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Saul A. Goodkind | Editor |
| Editing | Anthony DiMarco | Editor |
| Art | Paul Palmentola | Art Direction |
| Art | Sidney Clifford | Set Decoration |
| Sound | Mischa Bakaleinikoff | Music |
| Sound | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco | Music |
| Sound | Jacques Belasco | Music |
| Sound | Max Steiner | Music |
| Directing | Leonard Katzman | Assistant Director |
| Sound | George Duning | Music |
| Sound | Marlin Skiles | Music |
| Sound | J.S. Westmoreland | Sound |
| Sound | George Antheil | Music |
| Sound | John Leipold | Music |
| Crew | George J. Teague | Special Effects |
| Crew | Ralph Hammeras | Special Effects |
| Camera | Emil Oster | Camera Operator |
| Production | Paul Sperling | Production Coordinator |
| Crew | Lawrence W. Butler | Special Effects |
| Crew | Rookie Johnson | Cableman |
