Details

Release year: 1959

Storyline

A giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community and a heroic teenager attempts to destroy the creature.

Top credits

Directors

Ray Kellogg

Writers

Cast

Don Sullivan — Chase Winstead
Fred Graham — Sheriff Jeff
Lisa Simone — Lisa
Shug Fisher — Old Man Harris

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Did you know

• The voice heard on the other end of the phone, when Chase eavesdrops on a phone call to the police department, is that of Ken Curtis, who served as producer on this film. He is more famous for having played scruffy deputy Festus Hagen on Gunsmoke (1955).

• Ken Knox, who plays disc jockey Horatio Alger "Steamroller" Smith, was a real disc jockey working at radio stations in Texas owned by Gordon McLendon, the uncredited executive producer of this film.

• There was going to be a scene in the movie in which Old Man Harris is killed by the Giant Gila Monster. This was going to happen when he runs up the stairs in the barn and the Gila Monster would get him. The scene of him running up the stairs is in the movie, but the decision was made not to show him getting killed and was cut from the film. He isn't shown in the movie after the barn attack.