20 Million Miles to Earth (also known as The Beast from Space ) is a 1957 American horror science fiction monster film directed by Nathan Juran and starring William Hopper , Joan Taylor , and Frank Puglia . It was produced by Charles H. Schneer 's Morningside Productions for Columbia Pictures . The screenplay was written by Bob Williams and Christopher Knopf from an original treatment by Charlott Knight. As with several other Schneer-Columbia collaborations, the film was developed to showcase the stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen .
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