The Giant Claw - AI REMASTERED - HD - Cult Schlock Sci-Fi

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The Giant Claw is a 1957 American monster film, produced by Sam Katzman, directed by Fred F. Sears, that stars Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday. Both Sears and Katzman were well known as low-budget B film genre filmmakers. The film was released as a double feature with The Night the World Exploded.

Plot
Mitch MacAfee (Morrow), a civil aeronautical engineer, while engaged in a radar test flight near the North Pole, spots an unidentified flying object. Three jet fighter aircraft are scrambled to pursue and identify the object but one aircraft goes missing. Officials are initially angry at MacAfee over the loss of a pilot and jet over what they believe to be a hoax.

When MacAfee and mathematician Sally Caldwell (Corday) fly back to New York, their aircraft also comes under attack by a UFO. With their pilot dead, they crash-land in the Adirondacks, where Pierre Broussard (Lou Merrill), a French-Canadian farmer, comes to their rescue, and reports seeing a giant monster bird he calls La Carcagne. MacAfee's report is met with bewilderment and skepticism, but the military authorities are forced to take his story seriously after several more aircraft disappear. They discover that the gigantic bird, "as big as a battleship" and purported to come from an antimatter galaxy, is responsible for all the incidents. MacAfee, Caldwell, Dr. Karol Noymann (Edgar Barrier), General Considine (Morris Ankrum), and General Van Buskirk (Robert Shayne) work feverishly to develop a way to defeat the seemingly invincible creature.

The climactic showdown takes place in Manhattan, when the gigantic bird attacks both the Empire State Building and United Nations building. It is defeated by a special type of exotic atom, muonic atoms, deployed from the tail gun position of a B-25 bomber aircraft, which successfully collapses the creature's antimatter shield and allows missiles to hit and kill the monster. The giant bird plummets into the Atlantic Ocean outside New York City, and the last sight of it is a claw sinking beneath the ocean.

Cast
Jeff Morrow as Mitch MacAfee
Mara Corday as Sally Caldwell
Morris Ankrum as Lt. Gen Edward Considine
Lou Merrill as Pierre Broussard (as Louis D. Merrill)
Edgar Barrier as Dr. Karol Noymann
Robert Shayne as Gen. Van Buskirk
Frank Griffin as Pete - Pilot (as Ruell Shayne)
Clark Howat as Maj. Bergen
Morgan Jones as Lieutenant, Radar Officer
Benjie Bancroft as Civil Aeronautics Board Member
Brad Brown as Pool Party Diver
Al Cantor as AF Projectionist
Dabbs Greer as Fighter Pilot
George Cisar as Admonishing Man on Airliner
Bud Cokes as Civil Aeronautics Board Member
Leonard P. Geer as Paramedic
Sol Murgi as Civil Aeronautics Board Member
Robert B. Williams as First State Trooper