The Giant Claw: Directed by Fred F. Sears. With Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Louis Merrill. Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.

The Giant Claw is about a "flying battleship" terrorizing the world's skies. First discovered by an electrical engineer in the North Pole, the action picks up quickly with the monster attacking an Air Force and a Navy fighter plane.

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La garra gigante: Dirigido por Fred F. Sears. Con Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Louis Merrill. Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.

[recalling the filming of and eventual audience reaction to The Giant Claw (1957)] We shot the film before we ever got a look at this monster that was supposed to be so terrifying. The producers …

"The Giant Claw" is an adorably horrible monster movie featuring a silly plot, inept script, pedestrian acting, and the most endearingly ridiculous monster ever to threaten mankind.

Producer Sam Katzman had contracted with a low-budget model-maker in Mexico City to construct the "Giant Claw," and no one in the cast or crew had any idea it would come out looking as bizarre as it did.

The first show for "Shock Theater" features the 1931 horror movie "Frankenstein" and the 1957 horror movie "The Giant Claw". "Frankenstein" tells the tale of when Doctor Frankenstein is able to create life though sewing together the parts from various deceased people, and reanimating it into one living man.

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