The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues

Starring:Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen, Helene Stanton, Phillip Pine, Rodney Bell, Vivi Janiss, Michael Garth, Pierce Lyden
Director: Dan Milner
Studio: Retro Media
Product Type: DVD

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Phantom From 10,000 Leagues (B&W)
Starring: Kent Taylor , Cathy Downs , Michael Whalen , Helene Stanton , and Phillip Pine
Director: Dan Milner
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ASIN: B00006G8F5
Release Date: 2002-07-30

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For collectors of pure crap.......2005-07-18

This was a waste of time. When watching this movie the real challange is to stay focused and watch the whole thing through. The photography is dismal to say the least, the monster is another rubber suit that was recycled from/into other monsters from this genre, and the plot is dreadful.

For a one word review, imagine Homer Simpson's voice here.... "Boring."

Whale Dung..........2005-07-12

PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES is one of those movies that induces a state of near-hypnosis, before deep REM sleep sets in. Kent Taylor could well be the dullest leading man to ever saunter onto a movie set! His Dr. Ted Stevens is a snore-a-minute mannequin in a suit. Anyway, Stevens must investigate a series of deaths (don't worry, they're boring too) that have occurred at the hands (fins) of a creature, obviously designed / constructed by a team of monkeys with mittens on. This "phantom" is almost as frightening as Sigmund The Sea Monster, and looks nowhere near as realistic. Of course, radiation is to blame, causing the soggy sea-turd to attack local rowboat enthusiasts without mercy. This film goes out of it's way to be non-entertaining! I mean, at least CREATURE FROM HAUNTED SEA had some moronic humor to balance out the ridiculous monster and "tension"! This one's a real dogfish...

The Inside Scoop on the Phantom.......2005-06-19

I am so amazed to see people spending so much time watching and reviewing this movie! I thought my family was the only group left on the earth to watch it! I am especially impressed by your fine observations about the unweildy monster suit! And I am equally amused by your observations about the poor man in the suit!

Here is the secret you have all been dying to know--it wasn't a man in that suit, but a woman! In fact it was my grandmother, Norma Hanson. And the young teenage girl on the beach with the boy was my mother! So you can see my family has reason to sit around and watch this movie.

If you have no other interest in the movie (like your mom in a bathing suit), I really can't see watching it for free, let alone buying it!

Cheers!

{ (Radiation + Turtle) = Monster } = Dead People.......2005-03-27

Some '50s SF/horror films, such as THE BRAIN THAT WOULD'T DIE and TEENAGERS FROM SPACE, are really quite good. This one, however, is so awful that "fast forward" is the best way to watch it. The whole thing is basically filmed on one beach. No nifty special effects here! And that includes the Turtleman Monster, who sort of just sits there underwater with no expression, as he waits for rowboats to tump over so he can drown the retards in them. Then the bodies wash up on the beach, in the exact same place, right next to their overturned rowboat. I can't even recommend this as one of those so-awful-it's-good flicks. It's terrible; that's really all I can say.

Death rays, sea monsters, and murder by spear gun..........2004-04-27

Okay, I certainly had no illusions of grandeur when I popped this one into the DVD player, and neither should you. The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues? A more apt title would be the Guy in the Cheap Monster Suit From 20 Feet (or 0.00109730 Leagues, if you want to get technical)...

The film, directed by Dan Milner and presented by Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson (hence the incredibly cheapness of the entire affair) stars Kent Taylor, who also starred as Boston Blackie in the television series of the same name along with various cinematic wonders as The Crawling Hand (1963), Brides of Blood (1968), Satan's Sadists (1969), The Mighty Gorga (1969), and Brain of Blood (1972). The film also stars Cathy Downs, who later appeared in films like The She Creature (1956), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), and Missile to the Moon (1958), Michael Whalen (who also appeared with Ms. Downs in Missile to the Moon, Rodney Bell, Phillip Pine, Vivi Janess, and Pierce Lyden as Andy, the janitor.

The film opens with a fisherman casting a net off a small dingy, I guess, to catch some fish. Underneath the boat we see a man in a somewhat elaborate, yet highly unresponsive, monster suit. He pushes some on the bottom of the boat, and this causes the man to let out a feeble yell and fall into the water. The creature then proceeds to...the best way I could describe this is to say the creature began having relationship with the man in the water. I suppose it was meant to look like it was attacking the fisherman, but it surely didn't...anyway, the next scene shows the fisherman's corpse and his dingy on the beach, and we meet out main character, Dr. Ted Stevens (Taylor), or, as he's calling himself Ted Baxter, for reasons of his own for now, discovers the body. As the good doctor is looking over the body, government man William Grant (Bell), or Mr. Grant as he's known throughout the film, arrives and starts questioning Ted Baxter about what he's doing. Ted Baxter? Mr. Grant? I know, I know...if characters named Mary Richards and Murray Slaughter show up, we got us a full blown episode of The Mary Tyler Moore show...anyway, it appears the fisherman died of burns produced by exposure to radiation. So the pre-martial activities with the sea serpent were just salt in the wound? Bleeech...

The story progresses, and we learn that a professor of a local university, Professor King (Whalen) is working on some secret project, one of great interest to his secretary Ethel Hall (Janiss) and the professor's opportunistic assistant George Thomas (Pine), both whom he doesn't trust, for good reason. We also meet the professor's daughter, Lois (Downs), who really has no other purpose in the movie other than looking good and being a romantic foil for Taylor's character. Apparently the fisherman who turned up charbroiled wasn't the first victim, and the locals have concocted a story about a phantom(?!) haunting the cove, taking people. What is this, a Scooby Doo mystery? And what's Dr. Stevens role in this story? Turns out, as an expert in atomics and `death ray' technology (I kid you not), he was assigned to investigate, but no one told Mr. Grant, who is also looking into the matter. Apparently Professor King has developed a way to mutate normal sea creatures into monsters, and now one is guarding and feeding off a fissure of uranium within the cove, and killing anyone who comes near it. Also, it seems the Professor's assistant George Thomas is working with some unknown group to steal the Professor's plans, whatever the heck they are, and get paid big time. As for the Professor's secretary Ethel, well, she's just nosey, and we all know what happens to nosey secretaries, right? They get shot with a spear gun in the back. Oops...I give too much away...oh man, this is too good...who's the killer running around shooting a spear gun at people? It's no big mystery, as the culprit is highly moronic...I mean, a spear gun? Anyway, this mess of a movie shambles along, some more people die, people commit acts of idiocy, and the whole thing gets resolved about twenty minutes later than it should have, filling out the 80 minute run time.

The whole film is just so very cheap...the cardboard sets, clunky and unwieldy expository dialogue, utterly inane characters, and the complete predictability of the plot. It may seem like I've given things away in my review, but I really haven't, as you'll see most of what I talked about coming long before it does...

The print here looks really shoddy, being washed out, grainy, and just all around generally poor. Is there a better source print out there? Perhaps, but who's going to bother finding it? Retromedia does provide a good amount of extras for its' release including Drive-In Antics featuring Fred Olen Ray and Miss Kim (there is a bit o' nudity here, so don't let the kiddies watch), intermission spots, the kind you used to see in theaters and drive ins spouting the virtues of the snack bar and removing the speaker from your car window before leaving the drive-in, a still gallery for the film, Drive-In Antics bloopers/outtakes, and a whole slew of trailers of highly dubious films like the one on this disc along with trailers for Beast of the Yellow Night (1971), Curse of the Vampires (1971), Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), Fatal Justice (1993), Evil Spawn (1987), and Scalps (1983). I guess if I take one thing away from this film it's if you're going to choose a weapon to murder someone, a spear gun probably shouldn't be your first choice. I mean, if you miss, it just takes too long to reload, and you completely lose the element of surprise. There are several releases of this film out there, so features subject to change.

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Phantom From 10,000 Leagues
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Whale Dung...

The Inside Scoop on the Phantom

{ (Radiation + Turtle) = Monster } = Dead People

Death rays, sea monsters, and murder by spear gun...

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Starring: Kent Taylor , Cathy Downs , Michael Whalen , Helene Stanton , and Phillip Pine
Director: Dan Milner
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Release Date: 2004-03-02

Customer Reviews:

For collectors of pure crap.......2005-07-18

Whale Dung..........2005-07-12

The Inside Scoop on the Phantom.......2005-06-19

{ (Radiation + Turtle) = Monster } = Dead People.......2005-03-27

Death rays, sea monsters, and murder by spear gun..........2004-04-27

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Guys 'n' Thighs.......2003-08-10

Phantom from 10,000 Leagues is the only one of these features that deserves a single star. It at least tries to be straightforward sci-fi, even though its monster is so atrociously ill-made that it looks like a cousin of the Creature from the Haunted Sea--which is intended as parody. The latter has as much satirical savy, however, as a film scripted and shot by second-graders. Swamp Women, meant as jailbreak drama, should be of interest only to those who enjoy ogling short-shorted, cat-fightin' floosies--or maybe Mike Connors perpetually tied to a tree! Many of the players in the trio are competent actors (seeing them in other films proves this), but the sandwiching cinema is so shoddy that one would be better served acquiring Phantom as a single. It at least has a plot more expansive than that better suited for a short!

Quantity and price make it worthwhile for bad movie lovers........2003-06-17

None of the movies here represented can individually redeem a purchase, even for camp aficionados, but together on one disc you can hardly go wrong. Additionally, the prints are average at best, but come on... these movies are not likely to receive Criterion Collection treatment anytime soon. So for the price, they're fine.

As with a lot of the dvds in this "horror classics" series, the inclusion of at least one of the movies is questionable. Here that would be the crime-based Swamp Women. Yet, I'm glad, because it exists on dvd nowhere else. The other films exist in other formats, and have been amply reviewed, sometimes by me, so I will constrain my comments to Swamp Women. (Phantom gets a dull 2 stars, Creature gets a sometimes-good 3 stars.)

Swamp Women itself is no great shakes, earning a shaky three stars. You need to know little besides "1955" and "Corman" to figure that out. His movies from this early period are gratingly inept, but without a lot of the goofy charm that they possessed just a few years later. The draw is the cast: Beverly (Pretty Poison) Garland, Marie (The Killing) Windsor and Mike "Touch" Connors, of Mannix renown. The story involves a butchy policewoman going undercover in a Louisiana jail to infiltrate a gang of broads (led by Windsor, whose screen name is Josie. Would that make them Josie and the Alleycats?) who know where their former boyfriends hid a cache of stolen diamonds. The hard-bitten ladies take her into their confidence at once, as they perform "hard labor" in what appears to be a cigarette warehouse. They escape easily by climbing out a window, and run to a waiting car. None of this arouses any suspicion.

They change (offscreen) into pastel shirts, then commandeer a motorboat which holds Connors and his girlfriend ("Hey, baby, wanna tour the swamp?"), and a guide, who is shot dead so that penny-pincher Corman could pay him only for an hour's work. Connors, the nominal hero, is knocked cold by one weenie Windsor punch. The policewoman must then balance her hardened criminal act with her attempt to keep the hostages alive.

They all head toward the diamonds, inserting lots of padding and filler and stock footage, making time for bickering and cutting off the women's jeans to make them into short shorts. This meager bit of cheesecake helps the movie a whole bunch. They fight over Connors' affections as he is tied to a tree, and Garland has a nice wrestling match with the Jan Sterling-esque Jill Jarmyn (If you're familiar with Jarmyn's history, you know she's had practice). Plus, Connors, who earlier had been KO'd by Windsor, battles an alligator and kills it quite simply. Yet not before the budget-conscious Corman allows it to bloodlessly kill the girlfriend, who was flailing in clearly much bluer, cleaner water. (Personally, I think this scene was inserted later only at the behest of Connors and his agent, so Touch would not be the most worthless "hero" in the history of cinema.)

The movie tries hard to be tough and mean, like the caper films of the period, but it doesn't walk the walk, and it certainly can't talk the talk. Windsor's main hard-boiled line (over and over) is "Cut it out, you two!" The Asphalt Jungle this is not. Eventually they reach the "buried" loot, which appeared to be no more than delicately wrapped in dry reeds, rather like a tamale. More squabbling occurs. Then the group begins their trek back out of the swamp. Ill-planned double-crosses, a shootout that wouldn't have needed to happen, a javelin toss, a rattlesnake, a poignant death, catfights, oarfights, headbutts and a circling police helicopter ensue before a romantic fadeout that is just ... yucky.

Now I shall cowboy up and admit my particular bias. Beverly Garland was one of the few B Scream Queens who could act, really act. But it gave me no great pleasure to see her acting like a kill-crazed Bayou Barbie. And although her rassling matches with Jarmyn made me wish this had been made 10 years later, they were somewhat offputting, in part because they were quite convincing. I also did not like her playing second banana to Windsor. I won't even begin to discuss Garland's demise.

In fact, the whole cast is decent. But the script and direction are so bad and unambitious that they annoy, rather than elate. Not enough happens to be truly, memorably terrible. (I find bad noir less appealing than bad sci-fi.) A felt-and-rubber Blaisdell monster would've helped.

As always, when I describe early Corman, I like it better now, having reviewed it. Writing all the silliness down gives me a chance to process it; what was merely blah before brings chuckles in retrospect. But I don't know that it would help on repeated viewings.

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PHANTOM FROM SPACE: The film starts out with an unidentified object hurtling from Alaska to the California coast, where the object SEEMS to dissapear....THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES: A group of mad scientists manage to rouse a horrible monster out of the ocean using radioactivity.

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Terrible Quality DVD! Digitally Remastered???.......2005-12-16

I certainly understand why this DVD only cost me $2.50. This is the ultimate example of poor quality. The claim of "digitally remastered" is a farce. The source material for the master must have been a second generation copy of a low-budget, EP recorded video tape. The picture is fuzzy, grainy, and leaves ghosts trailing behind any character moving in a dark scene. Actually, I only watched "Phantom From Space." The quality was so poor that I won't bother to sit through "The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues" until I have nothing else to watch. This DVD was a waste of $2.50 (plus shipping).

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Whale Dung...
The Inside Scoop on the Phantom
{ (Radiation + Turtle) = Monster } = Dead People
Death rays, sea monsters, and murder by spear gun...

The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues
Starring: Kent Taylor , Cathy Downs , Michael Whalen , Helene Stanton , and Phillip Pine
Director: Dan Milner
Manufacturer: Retro Media
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Monster from the Ocean Floor
Day the World Ended/She Creature
The Monster That Challenged the World/It! The Terror From Beyond Space
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
Creature from the Haunted Sea

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Release Date: 2001-08-21

Customer Reviews:

For collectors of pure crap.......2005-07-18

Whale Dung..........2005-07-12

The Inside Scoop on the Phantom.......2005-06-19

{ (Radiation + Turtle) = Monster } = Dead People.......2005-03-27

Death rays, sea monsters, and murder by spear gun..........2004-04-27

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The legends of Science Fiction are gathered here for you in this definitive DVD collection of some of the greatest Sci-Fi classics to ever come out of Hollywood. This 8 DVD collection is sure to provide you with countless hours of entertainment. Volume 2 includes: Phantom from 10,000 Leagues directed by Dan Milner and starring Kent Taylor; Track of the Moon Beast directed by Richard Ashe and starring Chase Cordell; Horrors of Spider Island directed by Fritz Bottger and starring Harald Maresch; Robot Monster directed by Phil Tucker and starring George Nader; Bride of the Gorilla directed by Curt Siodmak and starring Raymond Burr; Hercules and the Captive Women directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Reg Park; Assignment: Outer Space directed by Antonio Marghereti and starring Rick Van Nutter; Blood Tide directed by Richard Jefferies and starring James Earl Jones

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