20 Million Miles to Earth (Phantastische Filmklassiker No. 22) [Mediabook, Cover B)

RELEASE-DATE: 27.10.2023
New from Anolis Entertainment

Brought back from an American space mission, a creature from Venus hatched from gooey jelly, a kind of humanoid reptile, grows more and more each day on Earth, swelling to a hundred times its original size. The tormented, utterly terrified creature breaks its chains and runs amok in the ancient monuments of a world city. Finally, tank guns shoot it from the largest enclosed structure of Roman antiquity, the Colosseum, onto which it has fled.

This film marked the beginning of Ray Harryhausen's film work in Europe. At first, the alien "Ymir", a monstrous homunculus, was supposed to rage in Chicago, but then Harryhausen was able to convince his producer Charles H. Schneer to shoot in visually appealing locations in Rome: A blend of antiquity and science fiction, so to speak. Among the team's famous fantastic films, it was the one that came closest to Harryhausen's model KING KONG in story and animation.

Packaging: Mediabook

FSK: 12

Picture Format: High Definition Widescreen (16:9 1,79:1) 1920x1080p - Colour & Black & White

Sound Format: German/English DTS HD-MA 2.0 Mono / English DTS HD-MA 5.1

Subtitles: German (can be faded out)

Length: 83 min. (24fps)

Bonus: Alternative colour version / Audio commentary with Dr. Rolf Giesen / Audio commentary with Ray Harryhausen, Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett and Arnold Kunert / Memories of "20 Million Miles To Earth" / David Schecter on Mischa Bakaleinikoff / Tim Burton on Ray Harryhausen / "Trailers From Hell" with Sam Hamm / Picture gallery.

Incl. 28-page booklet written by Dr. Rolf Giesen