Interesting article on movie re-makes. Scroll down to read paragraph about 451.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~78~1435456,00.html

One man makes a difference for Harryhausen:
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=42885§ion=SHOW&subsection=SHOW&year=2003&month=6&day=9