It Came from Beneath the Sea Rob A giant octopus (with only six arms) terrorizes San Francisco and the US Navy. No Boy Roy Harryhausen movies have pretty much one plot. Something terrorizes someone somewhere, killing a few people, a couple scientists fall work with the military and develop a weapon which eventually destroys the thing, and someone falls in love with someone else (but usually not the monster or whatever). This one has an octopus (I wonder what happened to his other two arms?) which ravages the Golden Gate bridge and several streets of San Francisco, as well as a few ships along the way. The effects are typical Harryhausen, good for the time, but never really scary. There are long periods of people talking which turn out to be very boring and cause the movie to stretch on and on. If this is on during some Sci-Fi Channel Sunday afternoon, I'd watch it, but unless you're a huge fan of the giant irradiated monster in the 50's genre, it's not really that enjoyable. Sailors, lots and lots of sailors; tentacles, lots and lots of tentacles; the destruction of the Golden Gate; the fact that no one really gets the girl; the possessive octopus ("My submarine, Mine!"); the many, many Cairo comments; the many, many opportunities for Octopussy jokes.