DESCRIPTION:
20 Million Miles to Earth is a 1957 American science fiction, giant monster film, written by Bob Williams and Christopher Knopf from an original treatment by Charlott Knight. Directed by Nathan H. Jurant, it is a showcase of the stop-motion animation talents of Ray Harryhausen. The first spaceship to visit Venus crash lands in the sea, freeing a small native Venusian creature called the Ymir. Eventually growing to enormous size, it threatens the city of Rome.