1953
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The Incredible Shrinking Man: Directed by Jack Arnold. With Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton. After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
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- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Jack Arnold
- 1957-04-10
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Robert Scott Carey, known as "Scott," is on vacation with his wife, Louise, when a strange mist envelops him. Six months later, he observes that his clothes are too large, suspects he is shrinking, and seeks medical advice. Initially, his doctor denies that Carey is shrinking. Later, the doctor confirms the shrinking through X-rays and refers him t...
Development and pre-production
Richard Matheson's idea for the original novel was inspired by a scene in the film Let's Do It Again, where Ray Milland's character leaves an apartment with the wrong hat. It is much too large for Milland and sinks down around his head and ears. Matheson sold the rights to Universal on the condition that he write the screenplay. It was Matheson's first screenplay, a writing format he felt he adapted to quickly. Matheson's initial script followed Scott Carey already shrunken and battling a spi...
Filming
On the first day of production, May 31, Universal's operating committee decided that because of the type of special photography involved in the making of the film, the publicity department would cooperate by publicizing a closed-door policy on the set. On-set photography would not be allowed while the film was shot to stimulate public and trade interest. Shooting took either five or six weeks, including the special effects sequences. The budget ranged between $700,000 and $800,000. Film criti...
Post-production
Special effects shots using black velvet trick photography took three weeks of post-production and were scheduled after the film completed production on July 13, 1956. Warren described the special effects as "hard to assign correctly." Clifford Stine, whose field was process work and rear screen projection, is credited with "special photography". The boat scene at the beginning of the film was shot on Universal's process stage, which allowed for rear screen projection.Shots of Scott in certai...
The Incredible Shrinking Man opened in New York on February 22, 1957. This was followed by a screening in Los Angeles on March 27, 1957, and a wider release in April. Actress Randy Stuart recalled the film was either "second or third, I think third, after The Ten Commandments" in terms of how much money it made against what it cost. Variety reporte...
Arnold's biographer Dana M. Reemes described The Incredible Shrinking Man as initially being received as a routine to above average film; its reception has steadily grown ever since. Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times called the film "a fascinating exercise in imagination, as terrifying as it is funny [...] Science-fiction admirers who are ...
Arnold commented on science films made after The Incredible Shrinking Man, saying that since his films were financially successful, AIP and Japanese studios developed similar productions, which he felt lacked in atmosphere or morals and were just stories about monsters. These included The Amazing Colossal Man and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Arnold...
Further reading
1. Havis, Allan (2008). Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0761839675.
The Incredible Shrinking Man essay by Barry Keith Grant on the National Film RegistrywebsiteThe Incredible Shrinking Man essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010: A Viewer's Guide to the 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry in 2009–10, Bloomsbury Publish...The Incredible Shrinking Man at IMDbThe Incredible Shrinking Man at the TCM Movie DatabaseThe Incredible Shrinking Man (prt: Sentenciado [2]; mac: O Anão [1]) é um filme estadunidense de 1957 do gênero ficção científica dirigida por Jack Arnold com roteiro adaptado de Richard Matheson de sua novela The Shrinking Man.
The Shrinking Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson, published in 1956. [1] . It has been adapted into a motion picture twice, called The Incredible Shrinking Man in 1957 and The Incredible Shrinking Woman in 1981, both by Universal Pictures. The novel was retitled The Incredible Shrinking Man in some later editions.
- Richard Matheson
- 1956
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- Jack Arnold
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YouTube Movies & TV. 180M subscribers. Subscribed. 243. One of the best science-fiction films of the '50s, The Incredible Shrinking Man is a gripping and thought-provoking classic. Scott Carey...
When Robert is only 93 cm height, the scientists find a formula and he stops shrinking and meets the midget Clarice that gives hope to him. But soon he continues to shrink and he moves to a dollhouse. One day, Louise is not in the house and their cat breaks in Robert's house.
