THE GIANT CLAW (1957/Clover Prod./Columbia) 76 Minutes Black & White. 16mm Mint

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It takes a lot to make a great motion picture. First, of course, you need a giant monster. You also need a little ominous narration at the beginning. You need radiation. And someplace along about the middle of the picture everyone in the cast has to sit in a darkened room and watch a little film-within-the-film that tells you all about what horrible things the monster did even before it got giant. What can raise a movie above greatness - what can make a perfect movie, however, is how a film maker can twist your expectations just a little. Use voice-over instead of narrated stock footage. Make the monster anti-matter instead of radioactive. And tweak everyone's nose with a slide show instead of a little film. Only Columbia would take a chance like this - and only Columbia has made the perfect movie. Directed by Fred F. Sears; Produced by Sam Katzman; Screenplay by Samuel Newman & Paul Gangelin; Music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Sound by Josh Westmoreland. Starring Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Louis D. Merrill, Robert Shayne, Edgar Barrier.