The Giant Claw
1957 · 74 MIN · IMDB 4.6 · 4,744 VOTES · DIR. Fred F. Sears
Overview
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Dialogue Timeline — 791 lines
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00:00:45 Once, the world was big and no man in his lifetime could circle it.
00:03:53 People doing a job, well, efficiently. Serious, having fun. Doing a job.
00:06:41 - Sure, that's what they pay me for. - lf there was something in the air
00:09:30 - Seems to be a local front, Mitch. - How about flying over it?
00:14:13 That's right.
00:16:52 Civil Aeronautics Board is sending up an investigating team
00:20:02 They're holding a plane for us, we'd better get with it.
00:22:55 - I stick to the rules, Mitch. Sorry about that. - Why be sorry? You can always...
00:25:43 Well, you are a child. Mitch, think!
00:29:39 A private plane here last night and a CAB plane with four passengers and a pilot here.
00:32:23 Yes, sir.
00:34:42 Get me a tape on all air-to-ground and air-to-air channels
00:38:12 Sure, it's just a bird.
00:40:13 - Van? - Sorry, Mac.
00:42:46 Evidently, this bird is able to open that antimatter screen
00:45:27 the Cabinet, the National Defense Board, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
00:48:45 So far as we knew the bird just kept flying around the Earth
00:51:08 countries off the face of the Earth, are completely ineffective
00:54:59 Well, it might be somewhere down in there.
00:59:36 You and I are going in to Washington tonight.
01:01:53 Right, Doc! Now if this thing of mine works and we can get close, real close
01:05:27 Easy, son, easy. You did your best.
01:07:01 Get me my pants, will you, General? Oh, Sally, get out of here.
07:09:07 This is New York International Airport. Over.
Cast & Characters
Jeff Morrow
Mitch MacAfee
Mara Corday
Sally Caldwell
Morris Ankrum
Lt. Gen. Edward Considine
Louis Merrill
Pierre Broussard
Edgar Barrier
Dr. Karol Noymann
Robert Shayne
Gen. Van Buskirk
Frank Griffin
Pete - Pilot
Clark Howat
Maj. Bergen
Morgan Jones
Lieutenant - Radar Officer
Benjie Bancroft
Civil Aeronautics Board Member
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed791
Dialogue density10.7 lines / min
First line00:00:45
Final line07:09:07
Production Record
DirectorFred F. Sears
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes4,744