{"id":35121,"date":"2024-02-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35121"},"modified":"2024-02-05T09:11:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:11:02","slug":"the-incredible-shrinking-man-1957-directed-by-jack-arnold-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35121","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Incredible Shrinking Man&#8221; (1957) directed by Jack Arnold \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z020624zview_incredshrinkman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Incredible Shrinking Man <\/strong><\/em>(1957)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jack Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Richard Matheson, Richard Alan Simmons <\/strong>based on THE SHRINKING MAN by<strong> Richard Matheson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, William Schallert, Frank J. Scannell, Helene Marshall, Billy Curtis <\/strong>and <strong>Raymond Bailey.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Victim of weird mist ! Day by day he shrinks! Science is baffled! Cat becomes monster! Terror at every turn! Deadly spider attacks! Lost in a flood&#8217;s fury!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scott Carey (Williams) and his wife, Louise (Stuart) are vacationing on a small boat.\u00a0 When his wife goes down to get some drinks a strange mist passes over the craft.\u00a0 Scott is covered with particles from the mist.\u00a0 Six months later Scott realizes he&#8217;s shrinking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The best doctors confirm that Scott is shrinking and begin searching for a cure.\u00a0 As Scott continues to shrink life becomes more difficult.\u00a0 Before too long even the household cat becomes a danger.<\/p>\n<p>If no cure is found, what will become of Scott as he continues to shrink&#8230;<\/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)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Incredible Shrinking Man<\/em> is based on Richard Matheson&#8217;s novel THE SHRINKING MAN.\u00a0 Some scenes from the book were to risqu\u00e9 for 1957 and probably still are today.\u00a0 They include Scott sleeping with a female midget, Scott abused by a drunk homosexual, and Scott peering through the window to watch a teenage baby-sitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the story ends with no cure found to save Scott, the studio got cold feet as filming progressed.\u00a0 Director Jack Arnold, hot off <em>The Creature from the Black Lagoon<\/em>, refused.\u00a0 Instead Arnold came up with a soliloquy for Scott to speak that ends the film.\u00a0 Test audiences proved the decision to be a winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The large props used when Scott shrinks were later used on the Universal Studios Tour and the television series <em>Land of the Giants<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Look for Mr. Drysdale (Raymond Bailey) of <em>The Beverly Hillbillies<\/em> fame playing a doctor.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Incredible Shrinking Man<\/strong><\/em> (1957) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.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\/2024\/z020624zview_incredshrinkman2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Director:\u00a0 Jack Arnold Screenplay: Richard Matheson, Richard Alan Simmons based on THE SHRINKING MAN by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121","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=35121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35122,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121\/revisions\/35122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}