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But the most astonishing thing about it is that......

posted 17 years ago by geo1284060
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..it has a mouth large enough to swallow this diving bell! Goodbye!

[–] hobnob53 16 years ago

Imagine if the Beast had decided to, shall we say, "evacuate" the bell while roaming the streets in NY? That would have been an interesting mess.

[–] Forgotten_Hero 16 years ago

It's hungry!

[–] cal-53 16 years ago

All the money this film has made for Warner Bros.

[–] hankpac 15 years ago

He did evacuate the bell, while on Broadway, there was a large "Clang" just before he eats the policeman.

[–] hobnob53 15 years ago

Ha! Maybe the professor and pilot were all right after all, hermetically sealed inside the bell inside the beast's tummy. But the policeman wasn't eaten on Broadway -- it was too narrow a street, and one-way. The discharged bell blocked the escaping traffic. The rest is just too gross.

[–] tmaj48 15 years ago

The beast could have discharged the bell on the beach as he died; the professor
could have emerged from the bell and announced, "Whew! What a long, strange trip
that was." END TITLES.

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

[–] yart65 14 years ago

Sounds good to me. Your final line for the professor is perfectly in character - I can hear the actor saying it.

[–] smudge358 13 years ago

I doubt they would have lasted long without any oxygen....just saying.

[–] e25171971 12 years ago

Hey, if old Rhed couls survive for hundreds of millions of years, they can survive the monster's GI tract.

[–] whitelion43 14 years ago

talk about the crap hitting the streets. I would pity the poor sanitation workers the day after

Oh GOOD!,my dog found the chainsaw

[–] radiodaze 14 years ago

"All the money this film has made for Warner Bros."

This response made me laugh the hardest! Russ Farris

[–] 12 years ago

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[–] btara_ktahn 13 years ago

Doesn't it eat (deckhand, uncredited) Robert Easton from "Giant Spider Invasion" (ewwww!) and "The Touch Of Satan"? I find it astonishing that it was able to keep him down and not lose it's appetite for the rest of the movie. :o)

Don't ask me what I think of you,
I might not give the answer that you want me to.
- Fleetwood Mac, "Oh Well"

[–] Navihawk 13 years ago

It might not have eaten the whole diving bell; it might only have bitten it, damaging it enough for the water to rush in and kill the professor and the other man inside, and then it might have broken off the chain and sank. We only saw the monster swim towards the bell with its mouth open, and then Tom and Lee on the deck of the ship when they lost contact with the bell. Just a thought...

[–] puirt-a-beul 9 years ago

Snap! Just came here to post the same thing.

I've just watched it on the new Blu-ray release, and in that at least we didn't see what came to the surface, so who knows what they hauled up ...

It only had to crush the bell enough to rupture it. The pressure and lack of oxygen would have done the rest.

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.