Peter Benchley The Beast Full Movie

1996 made for Goggle box movie

The Animal

Based on	Beast by Peter Benchley
Screenplay by	J. B. White
Directed by	Jeff Bleckner
Starring	William Petersen Karen Sillas Charles Martin Smith Larry Drake Ronald Guttman
Music past	Don Davis
Country of origin	U.s.
Original linguistic communication	English language
Production
Executive producers	Peter Benchley Dan Wigutow Julie Cohen (co-executive producer)
Producers	Tana Nugent Jamieson Michael R. Joyce (supervising producer) Judith Craig Marlin (associate producer)
Production locations	Patonga, New South Wales, Australia Sydney
Cinematography	Geoff Burton
Editor	Tod Feuerman
Running time	176 minutes
Production companies	MCA Boob tube Entertainment Dan Wigutow Productions Michael R. Joyce Productions
Distributor	NBC
Budget	$12,000,000^[1]
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	April 28 (1996-04-28) – April 29, 1996 (1996-04-29)

The Beast is a 1996 television movie starring William Petersen, Karen Sillas and Charles Martin Smith. Aired in two parts as a miniseries, the movie is based on the 1991 novel Animate being past Jaws author Peter Benchley. The film is well-nigh a giant squid that attacks and kills several people when its food supply becomes deficient and its offspring is killed.

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Plot [edit]

The pic begins with Howard Griffin and Elizabeth Griffin having a romantic night out on a yacht near the Pacific Northwest resort community, Graves' Indicate. After a freak occurrence causes the yacht to sink, the two are forced to head for shore in a lifeboat, merely to be attacked and eaten by an unseen creature hours later on. The next day, local fisherman Whip Dalton (William Petersen) finds the empty lifeboat and discovers a large claw stuck into the boat. Whip sends the claw to a university to be analyzed and information technology ends up in the easily of marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley (Ronald Guttman), who comes to Grave's Betoken claiming it is from the tentacle of a giant squid. The island harbor master Schuyler Graves (Charles Martin Smith) hires Lucas Coven (Larry Drake) to kill the squid after both Whip'due south initial advice to leave it lonely and several more deaths acquired by the squid. Coven succeeds in slaying a squid and the carcass is promptly sold by Graves to Bounding main Land Texas owner Osborne Manning (Denis Arndt). The unmanned sonar detects another, much larger squid which remains unnoticed past the islanders.

When Whip and Talley are not allowed to see the squid to examine it, Dr. Talley organizes a submersible expedition to explore the squid's habitat. After analyzing the carcass of the dead squid, the scientists decide information technology is but a baby. The information comes as well late, however, and the developed squid, the infant's mother, attacks the submersible, killing everyone on board. Whip angrily blames Graves for the incident, which besides resulted in the expiry of Christopher, Talley'south assistant and boyfriend of Dana (Missy Crider), Whip's daughter. Graves so blackmails Lucas, threatening to shut Lucas downwards for illegal trap fishing unless he resumes the hunt for the adult squid. Dr. Talley explains to Whip that the giant squid is killing out of vengeance for the death of her offspring rather than hunger, and is now even more than unsafe as a consequence.

Lucas resumes the chase along with Whip's friend, Mike, and another coiffure member named Scranton (David Field). After enduring stormy weather they make up one's mind to head dorsum to shore and continue the hunt the next day. The Squid attacks the boat before they brand it to shore, devouring Scranton and knocking a cargo net on Mike, injuring him. It then attacks Lucas in the helm who fires a couple of shots with his gun at its tentacles. The squid and then bites a hole in the hull. With water pouring in, it pulls the entire boat underwater, drowning Lucas. Whip, after learning that Mike went out to assistance Lucas comes to the rescue and, finding Mike holding onto a buoy, pulls him out of the water and takes him to the hospital. Whip then agrees to go out and hunt the behemothic squid but only if he can use his boat and Graves goes with him. He is also accompanied by coast guard officer, Lt. Kathryn Marcus (Karen Sillas), Dr. Talley, and Manning.

They program to snare the squid, reel it in and shoot it multiple times with darts full of cyanide. The plan succeeds and the squid appears dead. But when the transport's engine breaks down, Manning reveals that he filled the darts with tranquilizer instead of cyanide and then he could take the squid live dorsum to Ocean Country. Graves tried to escape on a lifeboat as Whip cuts the squid loose but as it awakes. The squid before long chases down and kills Graves. Afterword's, it resumes the attack on Whip'due south boat, killing Manning and then jumping on the boat. It so grabs Talley and eats him. A declension guard helicopter arrives in time to pick up Kathryn and Whip. Every bit he boards the helicopter, Whip fends the squid off with an axe, chopping open several extra fuel drums and has Kathryn use a flare gun to light his gunkhole on burn down. The squid is unable to escape equally an explosion blows up the squid'south beak and lower torso, killing it. The helicopter flies them back to the shore where they reunite with Dana.

Cast [edit]

William Petersen as Whip Dalton
Karen Sillas equally Lt. Kathryn Marcus
Charles Martin Smith every bit Schuyler Graves
Ronald Guttman as Dr. Herbert Talley
Missy Crider as Dana Dalton
Sterling Macer Jr. equally Mike Newcombe
Denis Arndt as Osborne Manning
Adrienne-Joi Johnson as Nell Newcombe
Larry Drake as Lucas Coven
Murray Bartlett as Christopher Lane
Laura Vazquez every bit Hadley
Blake Kearney as The Sax Player

Differences from novel [edit]

This TV adaption based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same proper noun is mostly true-blue to the source material; but some changes were made for the sake of picture locations and pacing. In the novel, the squid has much younger offspring which practise not make an appearance until the terminate of the novel, and the titular squid is killed by a sperm whale, not by an explosion as in the film. Many storylines and characters are added or changed in the Tv set adaptation. For 1 affair, the book took place in Bermuda while the movie took place in a Pacific Northward West community resort called Grave's Point.