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Just six years after directing The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, director Eugene Lourie goes back to the well for another giant lizard movie, only this time the monster is radioactive. While production values are high for a low-budget British production (British B-movies put American B-movies to shame, really), the resulting film is a far less successful one. Willis O’Brien’s stop-motion animation in the last half-hour are not as accomplished as Ray Harryhausen’s work in Fathoms. The action scenes are unfocused and the first forty minutes of scientific mumbo-jumbo is pretty intolerable.