The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

Kent Taylor and Rodney Bell are investigating several mysterious underwater deaths, supposedly caused by a sea "phantom." The pair suspect that a professor of oceanography (Michael Whalen) knows something about the phantom, which he most certainly does. The phantom, a mutated sea monster, is the result of the prof's e-e-evil experiments with an "atomic ray." Both villain and phantom (which looks like an ulcerated beach toy) are dispatched by a few sticks of TNT. Phantom from 10,000 Leagues is just one more grade-Z horror flick of the 1950s in which more time was spent coming up with a catchy title than on the film itself.