The Beast of Budapest is a 1958 American film about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
It was one of six films Walter Mirisch of Allied greenlit for shooting between April and July 1957 the others being The Victor Riesel Story, New Day At Sundown, Walk Tall, Death In Small Doses and Yellow Knife.
Filming started 19 August 1957.
The Los Angeles Times said it was "poorly made".
Variety called it "a serious effort to understand and portray the tragic episode but it still comes off as superficial comment. It is reminiscent of those early pictures about the Nazis."