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Eegah (1962) More at IMDbPro »

• Filmed in Bronson Canyon, a cave complex in the hills above Hollywood where Robot Monster (1953) was filmed. Eegah's cavern is Ro-Man's headquarters seen from a different angle.
  
  
• Marilyn Manning was Arch Hall Sr.'s secretary at the time of filming.
  
  
• Arch Hall Sr. claimed that he came up with the idea for this film after meeting 7'2" Richard Kiel.
  
  
• According to Arch Hall Sr., film opened at a drive-in in Omaha, Nebraska and took in $15,000 at this one engagement. This was equal to what he had spent to produce the film.
  
  
• Arch Hall Sr. once said, "It was always sort of a subject of laughter that the darned thing did so well."
  
  
• This film is listed among The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
  
  
• One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
  
  
• Producer Arch Hall Sr. also directed, under the name Nicholas Merriwether, and acted, under the name William Watters.
  
  

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