It's rare that you can say that you went down a Kenneth Tobey rabbit hole, but I guess it can happen. The other night when we were watching The Thing from Another World I told Janet that Kenneth Tobey eventually did a series of monster movies (none as good as Nyby's classic). This led us, on a night when she was tired and didn't have the energy for longer film, to Robert Gordon's 1955 It Came from Beneath the Sea, which she had also never seen (apparently not everyone spent every Saturday night watching monster movies - such a wasted life, her, obviously, not me - she probably had a date or was reading classic literature or something). A giant octopus, generated by H bomb fallout (which happened a lot in the 1950s) causes mayhem, including destroying the Golden Gate Bridge. Today the film is mainly remembered as the beginning of the Ray Harryhausen era of stop motion model animation (Dynamation) era. I think it is required viewing, but only if you grew up in the middle of a cornfield in Indiana in the age before cable TV or the Internet.
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