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Village of the Giants is a 1965 American teensploitation [ 2 ] comedy science fiction film produced, directed and written by Bert I. Gordon. Based loosely on H. G. Wells 's 1904 book The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, it contains elements of the beach party film genre.
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Village of the Giants is a 1965 American teensploitation comedy science fiction film produced, directed and written by Bert I. Gordon. Based loosely on H. G. Wells's 1904 book The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, it contains elements of the beach party film genre. The story concerns a gang of rebellious teens who gain access to a chemical substance called "Goo", which causes living things to grow to gigantic proportions. The cast is composed almost entirely of teenaged actors and young adults portraying teenagers. Also making musical guest appearances are The Beau Brummels, Freddy Cannon, and Mike Clifford. Gordon would later direct another adaptation of Wells' story, titled The Food of the Gods.
Mike thinks he's hit the jackpot when his girlfriend Nancy's kid brother, who they call Genius, creates a growth compound that results in animals growing to huge proportions. A group of delinquents led by Fred has come to town and when they get their hands the goo, as Genius calls it, their giant size make them unstoppable. While Genius tries to recreate the formula, Mike and other teenagers in town, serve the giants. Genius simply can't reproduce the formula but fortunately comes up with the next best thing.
Village of the Giants takes place in fictional Hainesville, California. After crashing their car into a roadblock during a rainstorm, a group of partying, big-city teenagers (Fred, Pete, Rick, Harry, and their girlfriends Merrie, Elsa, Georgette and Jean) first indulge in a vigorous, playful mud-wrestling fight, then hike their way into town. Fred ...
•Tommy Kirk as Mike
•Johnny Crawford as "Horsey"
•Beau Bridges as Fred
•Ron Howard as "Genius"
•Joy Harmon as Merrie
•Bob Random as Rick
Adapted from the novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H.G. Wells, which was published in 1904, the story concerns eight teens who eat a boy genius’s (Ron Howard) laboratory food and grow huge and terrible; another teen (Tommy Kirk) attempts to stop them.
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Jan 29, 2018 · Release Date: October 20th, 1965 Directed by: Bert I. Gordon Written by: Bert I. Gordon, Alan Caillou Based on: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H.G. Wells Music by: Jack Nitzsche, The Beau Brummels Cast: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Joy Harmon, Robert Random, Tisha Sterling, Toni Basil, Ron Howard Berkeley ...
Though he dabbled in other kinds of movies, he returned to this well again and again: in 1965 he made Village of the Giants, supposedly based on H.G. Wells' The Food of the Gods, and a dozen years later directed two more Wells "adaptations": The Food of the Gods (1976) and Empire of the Ants (1977), both loosely based on Wells novels.
Four teenaged couples arrive in a town after their car is wrecked in an avalanche. Young lovers Mike and Nancy are interrupted by Nancy's younger brother, Genius, an amateur scientist who announces he has discovered a food-like substance which causes those who eat it to grow to enormous size.
Village of the Giants is a 1965 American comedy science fiction film produced, directed and written by Bert I. Gordon. Based loosely on H.G. Wells's book The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, it has elements of the beach party film genre.
