Yahoo Web Search

Sign In

Search results

  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Incredible_Shrinking_ManThe Incredible Shrinking Man - Wikipedia

    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. [52] These included The Amazing Colossal Man and Attack of the 50 Foot ...

  2. www.britannica.com › The-Incredible-Shrinking-ManThe Incredible Shrinking Man | Science Fiction, Horror ...

    • Overview
    • Production notes and credits
    • Cast

    The Incredible Shrinking Man, American science-fiction film, released in 1957, that features an inventive story, an intelligent script, and impressive special effects.

    After being exposed to a radioactive cloud, Scott Carey (played by Grant Williams) discovers that his body is shrinking. As he grows smaller, his understanding of the world—and his role in it—also changes. At one point, he is forced to reside in a dollhouse and battle “giant” spiders and cats just to stay alive. Eventually he is reduced to the size of an atom.

    Britannica Quiz

    Pop Culture Quiz

    See full list on britannica.com

    •Studio: Universal Pictures

    •Director: Jack Arnold

    •Producer: Albert Zugsmith

    •Writer: Richard Matheson

    See full list on britannica.com

    •Grant Williams (Scott Carey)

    •Randy Stuart (Louise Carey)

    •April Kent (Clarice)

    •Paul Langton (Charlie Carey)

    See full list on britannica.com

    • Lee Pfeiffer

  3. www.criterion.com › current › posts10 Things I Learned: The Incredible Shrinking Man

    • Jack Arnold was a prolific genre director over the course of his many years as a filmmaker. He started as a cinematographer in the Army Signal Corps during World War II, and after the end of the war started a production company that made promotional films for nonprofit organizations.
    • With The Incredible Shrinking Man, the special-effects department at Universal had its work cut out for it. As discussed in an interview with visual-effects experts Ben Burtt and Craig Barron featured on our new edition, this included crafting oversize furniture and household items as giant props, to be combined with split-screen and rear-projection techniques to create the illusion of a diminishing Scott Carey.
    • Director Joe Dante added character actor William Schallert to his repertory troupe mostly because of his work in Arnold’s films. (Arnold’s daughter Susan also worked with Dante as a casting director.)
    • The Incredible Shrinking Man’s Butch the friendly house cat is played by feline screen star Orangey. By the early 1960s, Orangey had been in around five hundred films and won two Patsy Awards (the four-legged Oscars).

  4. facts.net › movie › 35-facts-about-the-movie-the35 Facts About The Movie The Incredible Shrinking Man

    Oct 4, 2023 · Mass Media. Source: Mubi.com. The Incredible Shrinking Man is a classic science fiction film that has captivated audiences since its release in 1957. Directed by Jack Arnold, the movie tells the extraordinary story of Scott Carey, a man who starts shrinking inexplicably after being exposed to a mysterious radioactive cloud.

  5. www.criterion.com › current › postsThe Incredible Shrinking Man - The Criterion Collection

    Oct 20, 2021 · The Incredible Shrinking Man is a movie without space voyages or extraterrestrials or futuristic science or monsters (irradiated or otherwise), the sorts of elements that director Jack Arnold had deployed so ably in It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), and Tarantula (1955). Radiation there is, in the form of a white mist of undisclosed origin, but the person ...

  6. www.criterionforum.org › Review › the-incredibleThe Incredible Shrinking Man Review :: Criterion Forum

    Nov 12, 2021 · Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man receives a brand-new special edition Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection, presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on a dual-layer disc. The 1080p/24hz high-definition master comes from a 4K restoration performed by Universal. The notes suggest that the scan comes solely from the 35mm ...

  7. People also ask

  8. scifist.net › 2023/08/20 › the-incredible-shrinking-manThe Incredible Shrinking Man - Scifist.

    Aug 20, 2023 · This is the build-up to The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Universal’s last great SF classic of the 50’s, directed by the studio’s genre master Jack Arnold, the man who directed almost all of Universal’s iconic science fiction movies: It Came from Outer Space (1953, review), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954, review), Revenge of the Creature (1955, review), This Island Earth (at ...