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Attack of the Crab Monsters
Release Date	February 10, 1957
Genre	Sci Fi, Horror
Director	Roger Corman
Screenwriter	Charles B. Griffith
Stars	Richard Garland Pamela Duncan Russell Johnson
Studio	Allied Artists

Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) is an American sci-fi film, produced and directed by Roger Corman from an original story and screenplay by Charles B. Griffith. It was produced under the auspices of Corman's Los Altos Productions, and financed in exchange for distribution rights by Allied Artists Pictures, which released it double-billed with the original Not of This Earth.

The story involves an expedition stranded on an isolated Pacific island, where it has gone to study the effects of atomic radiation on island sea-life, and to follow up on a preceding expedition, which has vanished. The expedition eventually discovers the existence of giant-sized, mutated crabs, whose cellular organization renders them close to invulnerable to physical harm. In addition, they are capable of absorbing the contents of the minds of humans upon whom they have fed.

Starring roles include Richard Garland as Dr. Dale Brewer; Pamela Duncan as Dr. Martha Hunter; Russell Johnson as Dr. Hank Chapman; Lesley Bradley as Dr. Karl Weigand; Mel Welles as Dr. Jules Devereau; and Richard Cutting as Dr. James Carson. Supporting roles are played by Beech Dickerson and Tony Miller, as two naval seaman assigned to protect the expedition; Ed Nelson as their commander]], and author Charles Griffith and Maitland Stuart as two other sailors. Robin Riley and Doug Robberts, stunt divers for the principals, are also listed in the cast.

Griffith also served as associate producer, Maurice Vaccarino as assistant director, Floyd Crosby as cinematographer, Curly Batson as makeup artist, Karl Brainard as property master, and Charles Gross, Jr. as film editor. The music score was provided by Ronald Stein.

When Allied Artists syndicated the film to TV in the early 1960s, they attached some opening disaster-footage shots with voiceover narration preceded by a scrolled "forward to the film"; and an end cast list, which was incomplete as it was taken from the abbreviated cast listing in the movie's pressbook.