Monster of the Day #618

In this shot, he looks like some character actor, but I can’t quite place him. E.G. Marshall, maybe? Borgnine?

The monsters from this film tend to look better in the film itself, although even there they have certain toy-like quality.

I’m also seeing a touch of Yul Bryner, but I’ll be the puppet is supposed to look like Torin Thatcher, demonstrating the psychic link between them.

Fun trivia note: two of the beast’s fingers (I believe it’s this one, although it could be the two-headed giant) were taken from the King Kong puppet! They needed some fingers and were coming up short on materials, so they went into the prop room and found one of the Kong puppets and just removed two of the fingers!

Wasn’t Torin Thatcher the sorcerer in 7th Voyage of Sinbad? It seems like just about everyone involved with that movie had something to do with this one, except Ray Harryhausen.

Because at the time, the puppet was just a prop in the storage room. Were it not for collectors like Ackerman and Burns, it’s likely movie props wouldn’t be considered special at all. At the time they were made, they were just tools to be used and then stuck in storage.