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Writer:
Charles B. Griffith (screenplay)
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Release Date:
10 February 1957 (USA) more
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Tagline:
From the depths of the sea... a tidal wave of terror!
Plot:
People are trapped on a shrinking island by intelligent, brain-eating giant crabs. Roger Corman directs. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Richard Garland ... Dale Drewer
Pamela Duncan ... Dr. Martha 'Marti' Hunter
Russell Johnson ... Hank Chapman
Leslie Bradley ... Dr. Karl Weigand
Mel Welles ... Jules Deveroux
Richard H. Cutting ... Dr. James Carson
Beach Dickerson ... Seaman Ron Fellows
Tony Miller ... Seaman Jack Sommers
Ed Nelson ... Ensign Quinlan
Maitland Stuart ... Seaman Mac
Charles B. Griffith ... Seaman Tate
Robin Riley
Doug Robberts
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62 min
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Ed Nelson "played" the crab monster with Beach Dickerson operating the monster's claws. more
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Continuity: When Deveroux calls out to the first team upon arriving at the island, the echo does not match what he shouts. more
Quotes:
Martha Hunter: But Doctor, that theory doesn't explain why Jules' and Carson's minds have turned against us.
Dale Drewer: Preservation of the species. Once they were men. Now they are land crabs.
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16 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
The very best with the very least., 4 December 2000
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Author: mattshaw from Brooklyn, New York

This movie was released with the lowest of budgets but at a time when similarly themed movies were made just as cheaply. Admittedly the last time I saw this movie was probably 1957, but it still stays in my mind because the monsters seemed impossible to defeat up until the end. Many movies of this type usually gave away their ending in the first 10 minutes - The heroes were definitely going to win or the monsters were just too powerful for there to be any hope. Among those films released in the same time period Attack of the Crab Monsters was more than a cut above the norm. In century of extremely sophisticated computer generated images, the special effects in this movie must be compared with those for the 50's (not much better). If you give it a chance I think you will give it a place in your collection as it is in mine.

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