''Twenty Million Miles to Earth'' (1957)

By Crusader1307

Another campy American B-Movie , this still Classic 1957 B&W gem was another of early Special Effect Wizard Ray Harryhausen (stop-motion technique). Still capitalizing on Aliens and UFOs stories, the stage is set as follows. A Spacecraft visits the Planet Venus. Although unfit for human life, a strange reptilian specimen is soon discovered (inside a jelly, egg-like substance). Bringing back the artifact, the Craft loses control in Earth atmosphere and crashes off the Coast of Italy. With washed up wreckage, a young local boy finds his new friend . Unsure of it's worth, he takes it to his other local friend (who just happens to be a Scientist). Seeing the full scope of this strange artifact, he begins to notice a peculiar trait. Due to our difference in atmosphere, the Creature begins to double it's size (becoming 10 feet tall in a matter of hours). Subsisting on Sulfur, the Creature does not have a heart or lungs (respiration achieved by several weird tubes in it's chest). Now 25 feet tall (and still growing), it escapes from the Lab and runs amok of Downtown Rome! The Military and Police can't stop it (but Heavy Artillery can). Destroying much of Rome, our Visitor is finally trapped atop The Colosseum (where Bazooka Rockets finish it off). The Beast falls dead to the Arena floor (much as ancient Gladiators did!)