Can Navy submarine Captain Pete Matthews (Kenneth Tobey) save San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge from ultimate destruction by a monstrous, mutated, eight-armed octopus that can survive on land? The brave captain is on his greatest mission yet to rescue the city and its people from the arms of terror.
This impressive creature-feature was one of Ray Harryhausen’s earliest showcases for his extraordinary effects. It was also the film that brought him to Columbia and into partnership with producer Charles H Schneer, with whom he would create some of the best-loved fantasy and science fiction films of the twentieth century.