The PHANTOM from 10,000 Leagues

I enjoyed this movie, and I plan to purchase the Kino Lorber Blu-ray when I can get it for well less than the current $20 Prime price tag. I just finished watching it once, and I'd like to see it again soon.While this movie, and dozens like it, deserve criticism for aspects stemming from having a low budget, it is still a decent little story. After all, isn't that part of their charm? Yes, the monster is a bit hokey. (Looks much like the design used almost 9 years later in "Horror of Party Beach", only better.) But they use him sparingly and effectively only in under water scenes, so for me it worked well.The theatrical poster art is deceiving, but that was standard fare for this genre.Kent Taylor was excellent in the leading role. He delivered a character that was both likable and admirable. A wise, reasonable gentleman. I found him particularly refreshing, and became an immediate fan.The rest of the cast did their jobs well. The whole spy aspect with Philip Pine was woefully underdeveloped, which is what I felt to be the only true downside of this film, but even still, that's OK. That part was really just an aside.Overall, good for this genre, and it passed my major test of whether or not I immediately wanted to see it again.I did.3.5 STARS

So-bad-it's-good but it's really bad horror/sci-fi mid-50's film. A scientist (with benevolent intentions) sort of creates a sea monster from an undersea uranium deposit that kills divers and makes a general nuisance of itself. Everyone is trying to figure out what's going on and there's even an unfriendly country trying to obtain the scientific discovery. Kind of dullish and the monster only makes sporadic appearances, and always underwater. The acting is OK but the monster costume is kind of crappy. The Kino Lorber DVD is excellent quality, on par with the Midnite Movies DVD. Recommended for fans of the genre.

I’ve collected just about every monster movie there is, is was cheaply made but still great to watch

This is essentially a no star movie that gets one star from being a 50's atomic age movie and because you have to give it one star. The other star is for the quality of the DVD which is very good. You get a trailer with brief commentary by Joe Dante.This should have been released as a two movie DVD just like with MGM's Midnite Movie Collection. It was released then with The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes. Regardless, 50's sci-fi fans are grateful for Kino Lorber releasing a blu-ray of this terrible movie. As is, it's hard to recommend buying it although many people like myself will buy it anyway just because it falls into the category of 50's science fiction and it's an early AIP movie despite being released as American Releasing Corporation.Kent Taylor stars as Ted Stevens/Baxter in this movie as an oceanographer/author who is investigating deaths off the coast of California. The acting is competent and could have been worse.The plot centers around a deposit of uranium just off the coast that is mutating creatures and sinking ships. The movie never really makes clear a number of things. We are not sure about which nation is involved in the subplot. We never know if the creature(phantom) was created by the uranium or by Professor King's experiments nor is it clear how the uranium got there.. Professor Kings experiments are never completely explained and the secretary's motivations are never really explained either. The Phantom is not really a phantom as it is very easily scene and makes no effort to disguise itself. As far as 10,000 Leagues goes (30,000) miles, it's more like the Phantom from 50 feet. The only other creature we see is a mutated turtle. The character of George is just pathetic. Why doesn't he just run up to his victims and shoot them rather than hide in bushes on a hill far away and miss? He can learn a lesson in speaking English too...."You see too much, you should wear blinkers"...it's 'blinders,' George!The special effects, which essentially consists of the Phantom's outfit are terrible. The creature looks pathetic and nothing like that of the creature on the poster/cover. However it is not as bad as the one in Roger Corman's Creature from the Haunted Sea, which is possibly the worst ever.Recommended strictly for 50's sci-fi fan's who want excellent prints of these movies.

If you love 1950s B&W creature features with a beautiful girl, a hero scientist, bad guys and tales of science gone wrong, this movie is for you. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Well, I have to admit I was born in 1949. I V=A=G=U=E=L=Y remember watching this as part of a triple-featureback in the day when the theaters without STEREO-sound made up for it with five cartoons; an A-feature; a B-feature; and a C-flick that sucked... horribly.THIS movie is the latter.The movie poster is a PAINTING, hint #1.The TITLE would suggest a DEEP-SEA monster---the attacks are about 100-yards/meters from shoreline.The title-creature is a man in a deep-sea-diving suit with a laughable helmet-mask.It appeared to me that the same one-person boxy-canoe is re-used again and again... and is the one on the shore.Five people are "horribly disfigured by radiation-burns.The longest 79-minutes I ever sat through... PERFECT... for the Drive-In and a hot-babe... Cheese-fest. For avid/rabid collectors ONLY. Bite me!

Bodies are being washed up along the coast. There are radiation burns on the bodies. Who or what is responsible? F.B.I Agent Bill Grant and Dr Ted Stevens investigate. They are very suspicious of eachother. In fact there are lots of suspicious people hanging around. For a start theres Profesor King, who does a lot of pacing up and down, looking sweaty and suspicious. Then theres King's associate George who skulks in bushes a lot, looking suspicious and holding his big harpoon. Last but not least,we have King's secetary Edna, who actually doesnt do any work, she just spends the whole film sneaking around extremely suspiciously.Of course, there is a phantom, of sorts as well, a hulking sea monster, that appears now and again to liven up proceedings. Its not the worst 50's man in a rubber suit pretending to be a scary monster, but its pretty bad.The acting ranges from adequate to awful. Kent Taylor manages somehow to make the character of Stevens both oily and charisma free, Michael Whalen sweats a lot as King, and Phillip Pine makes George a fine skulker.To be fair its one of those films that obviously had ideas well beyond its budget. The sets consist of three main places, the same stretch of beach used throughout the film, King's laboratory and King's house. The main idea of nuclear experiments in the sea causing hideous mutations is interesting, but this is all submerged under many action free scenes where nothing much happens, apart from middle aged men in suits waffling on about nothing much at all.Really nothing much to see here, and best avoided, unless you are like me, and have a perverse need to watch every single science fiction film ever made, no matter how bad. The DVD itself has ropey picture quality, but the audio is fine. 2 out of 5

good delivery.if you like bad sci/fi then you will like this especially the rubber monster, don't think that it is in the same class as the monster from the black lagoon because it is soooo not.

Brilliant, it brought back a lot of old happy memories. Well packed, arrived on time & top quality.

love this old B/W things where so simple then oldie but goody

Corny and cheesy but ok for old fashioned sci fi.