20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

Dr. Judson Uhl: You better tell them we're in a hurray and to roll up the red tape and put it into a drawer until this thing is over!

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Col. Robert Calder: Get that elephant out of there!

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[on the plan to capture the alien creature with a huge net]
Col. Robert Calder: Doc, this is like a parachute. It's got to work the first time!

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Ray Harryhausen:  a man feeding peanuts to the elephant that later battles the Ymir. He did so because the actor scheduled to play the part didn't show up. He later appears in a crowd fleeing the zoo.
The Ymir roars in the film are variations of elephant roars sped up and modulated in pitches at different rates.
Ray Harryhausen's original design for the monster was a giant cyclops, similar to the one he later used in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. He discarded the idea after making a clay model of it, and eventually settled on the reptilian Ymir.
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