20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

Maj. Gen. A.D. McIntosh: What I have to say you will find incredible- but true. Colonel Calder here has just returned from an expedition to Venus.
Contino: To Venice?
[Turning to Charra]
Contino: Perhaps you mean Venezia?
Col. Robert Calder: [Impatiently] To Venus! The planet Venus!

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[last lines]
Dr. Judson Uhl: Why is it always, always so costly for Man to move from the present to the future?

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Col. Robert Calder: [Seeing the Ymir for the first time] Incredible! The creature has to be taken alive!

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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.
Though the creature is referred to as the Ymir in reviews and websites, the name is never mentioned in the movie. Ray Harryhausen was concerned that audiences would mistake it for the Arabic title "Emir".
One of the reasons the film takes place in Italy is that Ray Harryhausen always wanted to vacation there but could never afford to go on his own.
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