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Category: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Release Year: 1959
Country: USA
Runtime: 74
Rating: 6.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Ray Kellogg
Sound: Mono
Taglines:Only Hell could breed such an enormous beast. Only God could destroy it!
Writing by: Ray Kellogg - (story)
Jay Simms - (screenplay)
Produced by: Ken Curtis - producer
B.R. McLendon - producer
Gordon McLendon - executive producer
Cast: Don Sullivan - Chase Winstead
Fred Graham - Sheriff Jeff
Lisa Simone - Lisa
Shug Fisher - Old Man Harris
Bob Thompson - Mr. Wheeler
Janice Stone - Missy Winstead
Ken Knox - Horatio Alger Steamroller Smith
Gay McLendon - Mom Winstead
Don Flournoy - Gordy
Cecil Hunt - Mr. Compton
Stormy Meadows - Agatha Humphries
Music: Jack Marshall
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community with a heroic teenager attempting to destroy the creature.
Plot: A couple of teenagers are reported missing in a small Texas town, and it is thought they eloped until their bodies are found in a ravine. Sheriff Jeff turns to his friend, Clarence Winstead, a garage mechanic and leader of a hot-rod gang for help. A series of tragic motor accidents occur and it becomes apparent that a giant gila monster is roaming the area and depleting the town of its hot-rodding teen-agers. And might have plans on attending the BIG record-hop party.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Santa is credited "as himself".
Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: The locomotive pulling the train that crashes off of the bridge knocked down by the title creature changes from a switch engine to a streamlined unit and then back to the switch engine again.
Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Release Year: 1959
Country: USA
Runtime: 74
Rating: 6.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Ray Kellogg
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Ray Kellogg - (story)
Jay Simms - (screenplay)
Produced by: Ken Curtis - producer
B.R. McLendon - producer
Gordon McLendon - executive producer
Cast: Don Sullivan - Chase Winstead
Fred Graham - Sheriff Jeff
Lisa Simone - Lisa
Shug Fisher - Old Man Harris
Bob Thompson - Mr. Wheeler
Janice Stone - Missy Winstead
Ken Knox - Horatio Alger Steamroller Smith
Gay McLendon - Mom Winstead
Don Flournoy - Gordy
Cecil Hunt - Mr. Compton
Stormy Meadows - Agatha Humphries
Music: Jack Marshall
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community with a heroic teenager attempting to destroy the creature.
Plot: A couple of teenagers are reported missing in a small Texas town, and it is thought they eloped until their bodies are found in a ravine. Sheriff Jeff turns to his friend, Clarence Winstead, a garage mechanic and leader of a hot-rod gang for help. A series of tragic motor accidents occur and it becomes apparent that a giant gila monster is roaming the area and depleting the town of its hot-rodding teen-agers. And might have plans on attending the BIG record-hop party.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Santa is credited "as himself".
Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: The locomotive pulling the train that crashes off of the bridge knocked down by the title creature changes from a switch engine to a streamlined unit and then back to the switch engine again.
Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- Ken Knox, who plays disc jockey Horatio Alger "Steamroller" Smith, was a real disc jockey working at radio stations in Texas owned by Gordon McLendon, the uncredited executive producer of this film.
- This was one of two features produced by an independent company in Texas and meant for release as a double feature. The other feature was The Killer Shrews (1959). Unlike many such features produced in the South, these films received national distribution.
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