The Giant Claw
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| The Giant Claw | |
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 Poster for the film The Giant Claw |
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| Directed by | Fred F. Sears |
| Produced by | Sam Katzman |
| Written by | Paul Gangelin, Samuel Newman |
| Starring | Jeff Morrow Mara Corday |
| Music by | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
| Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline |
| Editing by | Anthony Dimarco, Saul A. Goodkind |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  June 1957 |
| Running time | 75 min |
| Language | English |
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The Giant Claw is a 1957 sci-fi film about a giant bird that terrorizes the world. Produced by Clover Productions under the working title 'Mark of the Claw' and released through Columbia Pictures, it starred Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday, and was directed by Fred F. Sears. The film has been a staple of the bootleg video market with only two official VHS releases (one in the USA through Goodtimes Home Video and the other through Screamtime in the United Kingdom) to date, Columbia Pictures finally released the film officially to DVD in October of 2007 as part of the two disc four film set Icons of Horror Collection - Sam Katzman.
The titular Claw is The Angry Video Game Nerd's favorite giant movie monster.[1]
[edit] Plot
Mitch MacAfee (Jeff Morrow), while engaged in a radar test flight, spots an unidentified flying object. Jets are scrambled to pursue and identify the object but one goes missing. Officials are initially angry at MacAfee but are forced to take his story seriously after several other planes disappear. It turns out that a gigantic bird - purported to come from an antimatter galaxy, though contrary to this also from a terrestrial ice age 17 million years ago - is responsible for all the incidents. Mitch, along with his mathematician girlfriend Sally Caldwell (Mara Corday), Dr. Karol Noymann (Edgar Barrier), and generals Considine (Morris Ankrum) and Van Buskirk (Robert Shane), works feverishly to develop a way to defeat the seemingly invincible enemy. The climactic showdown takes place in New York City, with the bird attacking both the Empire State and United Nations buildings.
