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The FRiday Night Movie - The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
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Posted on 10/30/2015 8:03:21 PM PDT by DemforBush
A bit of classic B-movie sci-fi for our second feature. Scott Carey (Grant Williams) is exposed to radioactive fallout, and begins inexplicably shrinking. Doctors can't help him, and the cat and the spider in the garden begin to have plans of their own for our hero...
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 1950s; scifi
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I love this flick. It's really quite cleverly done, especially the F/X work. Brings back a lot of good memories for me, too. A local tv monster movie host in my hometown had a show where he'd run movies like this every Friday night. We'd make a big bowl of popcorn (cooked properly in a lidded pot, as we didn't have microwave popcorn back then, and my parents were too cheap to buy Jiffy Pop) and watch these movies into the early morning. Good times!
To: FlyingEagle; Silentgypsy; verga; Gefn; bramps; perfect_rovian_storm; 1010RD; faux_hog; bajabaja; ...
An incredible shrinking ping! :-)
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:04:30 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
To: DemforBush
I always thought this movie was to grim. Just hopelessness.
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:05:46 PM PDT
by
windcliff
To: DemforBush
How ironic that this was posted by “Demfor Bush”, when that’s how many would now describe Jeb, as The (supposedly) Incredible Shrinking Man”
To: DemforBush
I liked it too, and I liked another one called “Them,” with James Arness, James Whitmore, Fess Parker, William Schallert, and, at that time, an unknown actor, by the name of Leonard Nimoy.
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:10:07 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
To: DemforBush
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:12:00 PM PDT
by
Silentgypsy
(Mind your atomic bonds.)
To: DemforBush
AKA “The Jeb Bush Story”.
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:12:09 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: DemforBush
One of my favorite sci-fi films of that era, ie: 1955 - 65.
Also love the film: “This Island Earth”
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:12:17 PM PDT
by
MarchonDC09122009
(When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
To: lee martell
Heh, if only Jeb would shrink away and out of the race. And take Kasich with him...
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:13:31 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
To: DemforBush
I watched this movie in a theater with my mom when I was 7 years old and the movie was new. Scared the crap out of me. I never forgot it.
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:16:26 PM PDT
by
TexasCruzin
( He always hits back.)
To: DemforBush
Several of us college students were up late in the dorm watching this c. 1967 when a mink-farming commercial appeared in the middle of it. It ran on and on and on, finally returning us to the movie after a full and surreal eighteen minutes.
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:22:15 PM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: DemforBush
You mean Jeb (tippy-toes) Bush?
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:23:58 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
To: DemforBush
I love the soliloquy that ends the movie as Scott, having escaped the pit of doom that his cellar had become, now gazes upon the vast cosmos of the night sky:
“So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle.
I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God’s silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite.
I had thought in terms of man’s own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man’s conception, not nature’s.
And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance.
All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!”
To: DemforBush
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:33:02 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: DemforBush
Back in the 70's we had one of those home hot air poppers that you'd put a little oil or butter in the top of. My parents wouldn't splurge on Jiffy Pop too much, either, and I would sometimes take the lid off the pot too soon and send a popcorn blizzard all over the kitchen, so the hot air popper was the answer. We had a show called 'Creature Feature' with Count Gore DeVol on Saturday nights, and movies like this were standard fare. And ol' Count Gore wasn't shy about using a little burlesque T&A on his show, since it was on at 11 at night.
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:34:33 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(The Avatar is back by popular request.)
To: DemforBush
Pretty good movie. The anti-cat crowd loves it.
To: DemforBush
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:36:18 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: Karl Spooner
Pretty good movie. The anti-cat crowd loves it.
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:37:28 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: DemforBush
This is a good cerebral, literary sci-fi and a fun watch.
It is a metaphor, man!
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:37:32 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
To: Karl Spooner; All
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posted on
10/30/2015 8:43:19 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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