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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.
Theatrical
Jun 1, 1957
Theaters
1
Director
Writers
Producer
Sam Katzman
Studio
Clover Productions, Columbia Pictures
Quotes
See all →Uncertainty in a Desperate Situation
Sally Caldwell
Will it work, Mitch?
Mitch MacAfee
I don't know. I honestly haven't the faintest, foggiest idea. It's one of those cockeyed concepts that you pull down out of Cloud Eight somewhere in sheer desperation.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Perceptions of Reality in Conversation
Sally Caldwell
Well, flying battleships, pink elephants, same difference.
Mitch MacAfee
I said it looked like a battleship, not that it was a battleship.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →J
Jeff Morrow
Mitchell 'Mitch' MacAfee
M
Mara Corday
Sally Caldwell
M
Morris Ankrum
Lt. Gen. Edward Considine
L
Louis Merrill
Pierre Broussard
E
Edgar Barrier
Dr. Karol Noymann
R
Robert Shayne
Gen. Van Buskirk
F
Frank Griffin
Pete - Pilot
C
Clark Howat
Maj. Bergen
M
Morgan Jones
Lieutenant, Radar Officer
B
Benjie Bancroft
Civil Aeronautics Board Member (uncredited)
A
Al Cantor
AF Projectionist (uncredited)
G
George Cisar
Admonishing Man on Airliner (uncredited)
B
Bud Cokes
Civil Aeronautics Board Member (uncredited)
L
Leonard P. Geer
Paramedic (uncredited)
D
Dabbs Greer
Fighter Pilot, (archive footage) (uncredited)
S
Sol Murgi
Civil Aeronautics Board Member (uncredited)
F
Fred F. Sears
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
R
Robert B. Williams
First State Trooper (uncredited)
