Eugene Lourié

A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.

When an experimental atomic blast in the Arctic frees a 140 million-year-old dinosaur from the ice, the beast heads undersea to New York, raining devastation on the terrified city.