It Came From Beneath The Sea by the DVD Man

For some excellent reason Sony Pictures decided to put It Came From Beneath The Sea on BluRay! And they made it wide screen and also put on a colorized version. It looks fantastic and it sounds fantastic. The 4 note Monster theme that got used over and over again in a bunch of 1950's SciFi B movies - Bah Bah Bah Baaaaah!

The movie starts out with the brand new Atomic Sub going on a test run with Kenneth (Whirleybirds) Tobey as the commander getting attacked by a mysterious blob on the Sonar. I kept yelling: "Electrify the hull!!" like it was Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, but the US Navy didn't think of that back then.

So they bring in the scientist, which you always need in this kind of a SciFi movie and the babe scientist played by Faith Domergue first tells Tobey he's too dumb for her to converse with, then later after they figure out that the sub was attacked by a giant Octopus, Kenneth makes his big romantic play for Faith, smoking a cigarette in front of a giant "No Smoking" sign and then as some romantic music comes on, first he and then she grab and fondle a very long test tube!!! What a double entdre-unendo. I was cracking up big time! Such subtlety from a Scheer Production.

Then the Octopus, who's mad and radioactive, because of a Hydrogen bomb test in the South Pacific floats around the Japanese current over to San Francisco, where the master genius of stop-motion action, Ray Harryhausen, takes over with his lead models of the Golden Gate Bridge and his minature Sixtopus (he made it with only 6 legs) started crushing the bridge, smashing a lead police car and then messing up the commute by ripping down the Ferry Building and knocking down the clock tower. It's a lot of fun and just looks great on the BluRay. Of course, I've only seen it before on a small TV in B/W.

Lots of good extras: 20 minute interview with Ray Harryhausen and another short that went too long about the music, but it was fun to see and hear how they used music from other movies because of the low budgets.

The tops is the final line of the movie after Kenneth tries to get Faith to give up her big time career and settle down and get married. He says to the other scientist: "Well, Doctor. You were right about these modern women!"