When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.

• DirectorNathan Juran
• Release8 February 1957
• Genre
  Science Fiction / Horror
• Duration1h 22m
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• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  6.1
  154 reviews
• Productions

  Morningside Productions, Columbia Pictures