At 6:30 pm, the Aero Theatre will host a double feature with an introduction by legendary writer, Ray Bradbury and special effects wizard, Ray Harryhausen.
First up is THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953, Warner Bros., 80 min.), directed by Eugene Lourie. A giant prehistoric creature called a rhedosaurus is awakened from his icy slumber by nuclear testing and travels to New York City, where he takes his bad temper out on the stunned population. Based on a short story by Bradbury.
Next on the same bill is SHE (1935, Warner Bros. 95 min.), directed by Lansing C. Holden and Irvin Pichel. Producer Merian C. Cooper (KING KONG) tries his hand at the oft-adapted adventure fantasy classic by H. Rider Haggard and comes up with what remains, to this day, the most entertaining, eye-popping version. Unlike the enjoyable mid-1960's Hammer studios take on SHE starring Ursula Andress, which recast its tale in the African desert, this mesmerizing escapist fare is set in the Arctic, with intrepid explorer, Randolph Scott encountering man-eating cannibals before coming up against the even more formidable She Who Must Be Obeyed. Helen Gahagan is the imperious, goddess-like ruler of the lost kingdom of Kor, a woman haunted by her immortality after bathing in the flame of eternal life and waiting eons for the man of her dreams
