Starring Claude Akins, Leon Ames, Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Rosie Grier, Tab Hunter, Stubby Kaye, Eve Brent, Stanley Clements, Robert Easton and Patricia Medina. Claude Akins plays a tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman, who likes fighting only slightly less than working. He will do anything, risking life and limb just for the challenge…and if the pay is right!
Personally, I thought Claude Akins was incredible, but wasn’t too impressed with Leon Ames.
First, the movie is about Get ready for over-the-top hilarity when comedy original Chris Elliott (THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, SCARY MOVIE 2) goes overboard in this hysterical high-seas misadventure that’s sure to keep everyone laughing! Elliott stars as Nathanial Mayweather, a spoiled rich kid whose plans for a ritzy Hawaiian cruise backfire, finding him lost at sea with a gang of salty old sailors. And when his crusty cabin mates get a whiff of his highfalutin attitude, they give him every rotten chore on the boat — and take him on the wackiest adventure yet to sail the Seven Seas! Chart a course for fun with CABIN BOY — a truly wild comedy!.
I really enjoyed the performace of Ritch Brinkley and Ritch Brinkley. The rest of the cast was solid as well. The cast includes Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, Ricki Lake, James Gammon, Brian Doyle-Murray.
So what’s The Monster That Challenged the World all about?
A highlight among 1950s creature-features, The Monster That Challenged the World is a near-classic B movie that never goes out of style. When an earthquake reveals a nest of giant, prehistoric sea mollusks at the bottom of California’s Salton Sea, the local body count skyrockets. Navy lietenant Twillinger (Tim Holt) takes command, assisting the obligatory scientist (Hans Conreid) while wooing the June Cleaver wanna-be (Barbara Darrow) who inevitably tangles with the monster–a flailing caterpillar-like beastie with snapping mandibles and a voracious appetite. With a moment of vintage gross-out (”Get the eye! Get the eye!”), well-handled suspense, and the requisite balance of tepid romance and sci-fi jargon, this is a prime companion to any film in the atomic-monster lineup. The aging Holt made only two more movies after this (following a thriving career in Westerns), but he gives Monster his best shot and comes up a winner. –Jeff Shannon
When was it made?
8/28/2001
Who stars in it?
Tim Holt Audrey Dalton
And the cast includes:
Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Harlan Warde, Max Showalter
