{"id":34526,"date":"2023-11-25T06:09:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T11:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34526"},"modified":"2023-11-25T06:09:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T11:09:15","slug":"monster-on-the-campus-1958-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34526","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Monster on the Campus&#8221; (1958) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z112523zview_monsteroncampus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"761\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Monster on the Campus<\/strong><\/em> (1958)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Jack Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: <strong>David Duncan<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Joanna Moore, Troy Donahue, Phil Harvey, Helen Westcott, Helen Westcott, Whit Bissell, Ross Elliott,<\/strong> and <strong>Eddie Parker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Co-ed beauty captive of man-monster! Campus terror! Students victims of terror-beast!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Donald Blake (Franz) accidently cuts himself on the teeth of a well-preserved million-year-old fish fossil. Right after, while putting the fossil away, his injured hand dips into the water holding the specimen.\u00a0 Later Blake learns the fossil had been preserved using gamma rays.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That evening a woman is savagely attacked.\u00a0 Her corpse is found hanging from a tree.\u00a0 Professor Blake is found barely conscious on the ground nearby.\u00a0 He has no memory of what happened.\u00a0 When the police find a huge deformed handprint they believe it to be the killer&#8217;s.\u00a0 While the police begin a hunt for the monster, Professor Blake worries that he is devolving into a creature from the past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the start of the movie on a shelf in Professor Blake&#8217;s lab is a series of molds showing the evolution of man&#8217;s face.\u00a0 The very first mold looks a lot like The Creature from the Black Lagoon.\u00a0 Jack Arnold, who directed <em>Monster On the Campus<\/em>, also helmed <em>The Creature from the Black Lagoon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jack Arnold was the go-to director for horror\/sci-fi movies in the 1950s.\u00a0 He helmed <em>It Came from Outer Space; The Creature from the Black Lagoon; Revenge of the Creature; This Island Earth; Tarantula; The Incredible Shrinking Man; The Space Children<\/em> and <em>Monster on the Campus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Monster on the Campus<\/em> was Troy Donahue&#8217;s last film for Universal.\u00a0 The following year he signed a contract at Warner Bros. and soon became a top name star.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z112523zview_monsteroncampus2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monster on the Campus (1958) Director: Jack Arnold Screenplay by: David Duncan Starring: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Joanna Moore, Troy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34624,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526\/revisions\/34624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}