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Tarantula
Why this pick
Shared genres: Horror, Science Fiction.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1958 1h 17m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
Monster on the Campus
HorrorScience Fiction
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
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The Thing with Two Heads
Why this pick
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
Why this pick
Shared genres: Science Fiction.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Dr. Donald Blake (Arthur Franz), a science professor at Dunsford University, receives delivery of a coelacanth. A student, Jimmy (Troy Donahue), asks Blake if the fish is really a million years old. Blake replies, "It's the species that's old. No change in millions of years. See, the coelacanth is a living fossil, immune to the forces of evolution". Blake lectures his students about evolution and Devolution (biology), telling them that man is the only creature that can decide whether to move forwards or backwards, and that "unless we learn to control the instincts we've inherited from our ape-like ancestors, the race is doomed".
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Arthur Franz
Donald Blake
Joanna Moore
Madeline Howard
Ross Elliott
Sgt. Eddie Daniels
Phil Harvey
Sgt. Powell
Hank Patterson
Townsend - Night Watchman
Richard H. Cutting
Tom Edwards - Forest Ranger
Nancy Walters
Sylvia Lockwood
Whit Bissell
Dr. Oliver Cole