Tarantula
Summary:
A man with a strangely misshapen face wanders out of the desert near a small town and falls to the ground dead. The county sheriff (Nestor Paiva) tentatively identifies the dead man as Eric Jacobs, a laboratory assistant to Professor Deemer (Leo G. Carroll), a research scientist living a few miles out in the desert. But there's something strange about Jacobs; his facial fe... Full Summary >>
Cast:
John Agar - (Dr. Matt Hastings)
Mara Corday - (Stephanie "Steve" Clayton)
Leo G. Carroll - (Prof. Gerald Deemer)
Nestor Paiva - (Sheriff Jack Andrews)
Ross Elliott - (John Burch)
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Review:
Jack Arnold's Tarantula was clearly modeled after Gordon Douglas' Them, the first of the giant insect movies, which had scored a huge hit for Warner Bros. the previous year. The story, however, was also tailored to the elements that Arnold favored in his own work, utilizing the notion of the isolated desert community as well as th... Continue >>
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