The Giant Behemoth

The Giant Behemoth is a 1959 film about marine atomic tests that cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.

Directed by Eugène Lourié. Written by Robert Abel.'

SEE the Beast that shakes the Earth! LIVE in a world gone mad! WATCH the chaos of a smashed civilization! FLEE from the mightiest fright on the screen! NOTHING so Big as Behemoth!  (taglines)

Steve Karnes

• One thing is sure. Something has happened here that isn't in the book. Something came out of the ocean and now has gone back into.
• This is very impressive, but I'm not going to perform surgery... I'm going to cut a fish.

Other

• Dr. Sampson: Oh, it's heading for the Thames. They always made for the freshwater rivers to die. That's where their skeletons have been found - some irrestible instinct to die in the shallows that gave them birth. You know, all my life I hoped this would happen. Ever since childhood I expected it. I knew these creatures were alive somewhere, but I had no proof, scientific proof, and I had to keep it to myself, or my colleagues would have all laughed at me. See, no form of life ceases abruptly, and all those reports of sea serpents - well, what can they be?... The tall, graceful neck of paleosaurus. He can stay underneath the surface for an age, and now he comes to the top.

Dialogue

John: What happened, man? Can - Can you talk to us? Can you hear us, Tom?

Jean Trevethan: Dad? Dad?

Tom Trevethan: From the sea... burning, like fire!

John: What was it?

Tom Trevethan: Behemoth!

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Steve Karnes: I feel Admiral, what we're facing is a marine animal of tremendous size and strength.

Admiral Summers: Do you mean to believe that a whale could've smashed through steel plates so high above the water line?

Steve Karnes: I didn't say a whale.

Professor James Bickford: Behemoth?

Steve Karnes: That's as good a name as any for now.

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Old Lady: Fiddlesticks!

Taglines

• The Biggest Thing Since Creation!
• SEE the Beast that shakes the Earth! LIVE in a world gone mad! WATCH the chaos of a smashed civilization! FLEE from the mightiest fright on the screen! NOTHING so Big as Behemoth!

Cast

• Gene Evans — Steve Karnes
• André Morell — Prof. James Bickford
• John Turner — John
• Leigh Madison — Jean Trevethan
• Jack MacGowran — Dr. Sampson, the Paleontologist
• Maurice Kaufmann — Mini Submarine Officer
• Henri Vidon — Thomas Trevethan
• Leonard Sachs — Scientist

External links

• The Giant Behemoth quotes at the Internet Movie Database