Phantom from 10000 Leagues

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

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

Phantom from 10000 Leagues
Starring: Kent Taylor , Cathy Downs , Michael Whalen , Helene Stanton , and Phillip Pine
Director: Dan Milner
Manufacturer: Ventura Distribution
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005M0JA
Release Date: 2001-08-21

Customer Reviews:

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.

Product Description

This DVD includes 2 Cartoons: Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend & A Superman Cartoon. It also includes some old-fashioned TV Commercials! Gorgo Gorgo is an attempt to make a Japanese-style "giant reptile" flick in an English setting. The story begins when underwater volcanic activity in the Irish Sea brings forth a 65-foot monster called Gorgo. Enterprising Joe (Bill Travers) and Sam (William Sylvester) capture the beast and transport it to London, where Gorgo is put on display as a seaside carnival attraction. This proves to be a major mistake when Gorgo's even larger mother lumbers to the surface in search of her cute li'l baby. In short order, London is trampled and trashed. Phantom From 10,000 Leagues A series of mysterious deaths of fishermen and swimmers along a stretch of beach attract the attention of scientist Dr. Ted Stevens (Kent Taylor) and government investigator William Grant (Rodney Bell) -- they both want to know why the victims and their boats all show signs of exposure to atomic radiation, and if there's a connection between the deaths and the nearby Pacific College of Oceanography, run by Professor King (Michael Whalen); and they're also interested in why King's assistant, George Thomas (Phillip Pine), is always lurking around the beach, often armed with a spear gun. Stevens establishes a friendship with King's daughter Lois (Cathy Downs) that turns to romance, but he's principally concerned with finding out about an apparent source of radiation on the ocean floor, and what its connection might be with the unearthly sea creature rumored to be stalking that section of the beach. Helene Stanton hangs around in a fairly revealing (for the time) bathing suit, waiting on the beach for some top-secret information, and Vivi Janiss overacts nicely as a woman with too much on her mind for her own good

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