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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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To: windcliff
I always thought this movie was to grim. Just hopelessness.

I agree. Quite the downer.

21 posted on 10/30/2015 9:07:59 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: concentric circles
Re: 13

Sounds very poetic, but without Christ it is just whistling in the dark.
Sounds vaguely reminiscent to the eulogy given by Robert Ingersoll for his famous atheist brother Ebon:

"...We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing...."

Even the atheist, who denies God and an afterlife, still 'hopes' for a light, a star...
There is no hope, but in Christ. He's the solid rock, and all else is shifting sand.

22 posted on 10/30/2015 9:23:05 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Mark17

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.


I just looked at my satellite images and your house is surrounded by giant ants. LOL

I like that movie, too.


23 posted on 10/30/2015 10:10:30 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: DemforBush

A great movie, especially late at night.


24 posted on 10/30/2015 10:25:33 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: laplata
I just looked at my satellite images and your house is surrounded by giant ants. LOL

Well, I was wondering what I was looking at outside. I remember the old dude, "make me a sergeant, charge the booze. Make me a sergeant, charge the booze."

25 posted on 10/30/2015 10:54:38 PM PDT by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: Mark17

” I remember the old dude, “make me a sergeant, charge the booze. Make me a sergeant, charge the booze.”

LOL That was a good scene. I bet those old guys were actually skid row bums.


26 posted on 10/30/2015 11:00:02 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata
I bet those old guys were actually skid row bums.

They looked like it. One rather glaring error they made, was Nimoy was wearing an Army uniform, I think it was E-6 stripes. Then, he was seen in a USAF E-7 uniform. I hate it when they do that.

:-)

27 posted on 10/30/2015 11:08:24 PM PDT by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: DemforBush

I have never seen this whole movie. I always catch it about the time he’s fighting the spider. I love the ending. So much so, I put it on my FR home page.


28 posted on 10/30/2015 11:08:52 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Mark17

Good eye. I pay attention to things like that, too.

And Nimoy was probably way to young to be an E-6.


29 posted on 10/30/2015 11:22:04 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Mark17
THEM! is a true classic. But my favorite is The Thing, also featuring James Arness (in a non speaking role!).
30 posted on 10/31/2015 3:25:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: Mark17

I ran across this Leonard Nimoy flick where he is actually a commander of something for once. In this case a sub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZZJW1DHa4


31 posted on 10/31/2015 4:35:32 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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