From Wiki- The first U.S. spaceship to Venus, the XY-21, crashes into the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Italy.
Fishermen in their boats head to the spacecraft, enter it through a
hole, and pull two spacemen from the nose-down craft before it
completely sinks. In Washington, D.C.,
Major General A.D. McIntosh discovers that the missing spaceship,
piloted by Colonel Bob Calder, has been located. As McIntosh flies to
the site, Pepe, a little boy, finds a translucent cylinder marked “USAF”
on the beach. It contains a gelatinous mass egg, which he sells to Dr.
Leonardo, a zoologist studying sea creatures. Meanwhile, Leonardo's
granddaughter Marisa, a third-year medical student, is summoned to take
care of the injured spacemen. When Calder regains consciousness, he
finds his crewmate, Dr. Sharman, dying as his eight other crewmen did. Back to me and comments:There is a podcast about this movie showing up later. Sven didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know about the movie, and the segments slowed down the airing a bit. It didn't help that I watched the movie before so I could get screen grabs. It is basically Ray's version of King Kong (1933), but without all the majesty of the original. I like it, but it isn't my favorite of Ray's black and white movies.
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