The Giant Claw

Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.

Cast

Jeff Morrow

as Mitchell 'Mitch' MacAfee

Mara Corday

as Sally Caldwell

Morris Ankrum

as Lt. Gen. Edward Considine

Louis Merrill

as Pierre Broussard

Edgar Barrier

as Dr. Karol Noymann

Robert Shayne

as Gen. Van Buskirk

Frank Griffin

as Pete - Pilot

Clark Howat

as Maj. Bergen

Morgan Jones

as Lieutenant, Radar Officer

Benjie Bancroft

as Civil Aeronautics Board Member (uncredited)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

I'm not sure that if I'd been involved in this that I've have taken a credit at all, much less one of the multitude of big block capital ones that top this Kentucky Fried flop. It's all about planes that go missing - but radar can shed no light on the disappearances. Luckily, Jeff Morrow made it bac...

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