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Giant Crab | Radiation
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Budget 70,000 USD
Ed Nelson "played" the crab monster with Beach Dickerson operating the monster's claws.
Allied Artists Pictures released this film on a double bill with Not of This Earth (1957) to many drive-in theaters with the tag line "Terrorama! Double Horror Sensation!"
Paul Blaisdell was a member of Roger Corman's unofficial "stock company". He would normally build the monsters and special props for Corman's features. He turned this project down because he felt he could not do an adequate job for the money that was being offered.
Russell Johnson broke his little toe while splashing around in the water during a scene at rocky cove. Due to the low budget of the film, director Roger Corman had a stage tech tape up Johnson's toe with gaffer's tape and immediately ordered him back in the water to finish the scene.
The film's budget was $70,000.
"Dr. Karl Weigand: Any matter, therefore, that the crab eats will be assimilated in its body as solid energy, becoming part of the crab. Martha Hunter: Like the bodies of the dead men? Dr. Karl Weigand: Yes - and their brain tissue, which, after all, is nothing more than a storage house for electrical impulses. Dale Drewer: That means that the crab can eat his victim's brain, absorbing his mind intact and working. Dr. Karl Weigand: It's as good a theory as any other to explain what's happened. Martha Hunter: But, Doctor, that theory doesn't explain why Jules' and Carson's minds have turned against us. Dale Drewer: Preservation of the species. Once they were men; now they are land crabs."
"[Hank tries to contact the U.S. Navy using a jury-rigged wireless telegraph set] Dale Drewer: You getting through, Hank? Hank Chapman: How should I know? I'm not on the other end of this thing! Martha Hunter: Oh, Hank, you must get through. Hank Chapman: I know it. It's gone dead The Crab: [laughing, with Karl's voice] I'm afraid that won't help you, Hank. By the time ships and planes can arrive, this island will have vanished beneath the waves of the sea. The Crab: [with Jules' voice] But you will not drown. You will be a part of me. The Crab: [with Karl's voice again] And as with McLane, there will be no evidence of how you vanished, or of my existence. We will rest in the caves and plan our assault upon the world of men!"
