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3	A giant monster film from 1957, directed by Arnold Laven and starring Tim Holt and Audrey Dalton.
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5	A string of disappearances happen on a lake in the middle of a desert. The culprits are revealed to be [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant mollusks]] that start rising up from the depths, and their upcoming numbers threaten the U.S. Navy base nearby, and everything else beyond it.
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9	!!This film has the examples of:
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11	* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Little Sandy [[FreeRangeChildren has the run of the lab]], which nearly leads to disaster when she fiddles with the lab equipment to warm up some chilled rabbits.
12	* AutopsySnackTime: After Twillinger questions the coroner about what he has learned from the drained corpses, he offers him and the sheriff a sandwich ("It's nice and cold"). Twillinger declines.
13	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Louis Clark Dobbs, head of the Imperial County Museum. The man has genuinely useful knowledge pertaining to several previously unknown waterways. However, he has a poor way of communicating, which comes across as strange to others.
14	* EyeScream: One of the creatures attack Twillinger and company on their boat, and is driven off after it gets its eye poked out.
15	* GrievousBottleyHarm: Twillinger tries to get one creature's attention by throwing beakers at it. That fails, so he grabs a fire extinguisher.
16	* InformedSpecies: The monsters are given stubby legs and pincer jaws, making them look more like caterpillars with snail shells than like snails.
17	* ItsAllMyFault: Upon learning that her daughter Jody is likely dead, Mrs. Simms has a complete breakdown. Crying as she loudly blames herself for her daughters' death.
18	* MamaBear: Mrs. Simms is very protective of her daughter Jody. Sadly, this does not prevent Jody from becoming one of the giant mollusk's victims.
19	* NightSwimEqualsDeath: Two lovers Morty and Jody go swimming in the moonlight, and they soon disappear beneath the surface.
20	* RaceAgainstTheClock: Creatures' eggs are discovered in the bottom of the lake, and they all must be destroyed before they hatch.
21	* TouchOfTheMonster: Posters for the film had variations of scantily clad women in peril at the monsters' claws.

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