20 Million Miles to Earth

20 Million Miles to Earth.
Directed byNathan Juran
Screenplay by
  • Bob Williams
  • Christopher Knopf
Story by
Produced byCharles H. Schneer
Starring
Narrated byWilliam Woodson
Cinematography
Edited byEdwin Bryant
Music byMischa Bakaleinikoff
Production
company
Morningside Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • June 1957 (1957-06)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

20 Million Miles to Earth (also known as The Beast from Space) is a 1957 American science-fiction monster film directed by Nathan Juran and featuring stop-motion animation by Ray Harryhausen. It stars William Hopper, Joan Taylor, and Frank Puglia. Set in Italy, the film centers on an alien lifeform from Venus that arrives via a crashed rocket, and begins rapidly growing.

The film was produced by Charles H. Schneer's Morningside Productions for Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Bob Williams and Christopher Knopf from an original treatment by Charlott Knight and Harryhausen. It was released theatrically in June 1957, to positive reviews.

  1. ^ *Swires, Steve (January 1990). "Mentor to the Magicks Part One". Starlog. No. 150. pp. 60–61.