Tag: Jack Arnold

Tarantula Script

Script by:Robert M. Fresco (Screenplay), Martin Berkeley (Screenplay)
Directed by:Jack Arnold
Year:1955
IMDb:tt0048696

Plot:A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new, and very female, assistant, they discover that, far worse, something much larger and hungrier than it ever should be, is devouring local cattle - and humans - in increasingly large quantities.
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The Creature From The Black Lagoon Script

Script by:Harry Essex (Screenplay), Arthur A. Ross (Screenplay)
Directed by:Jack Arnold
Year:1954
IMDb:tt0046876

Plot:A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discover a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks free. The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the lovely Kay, fiancée of one of the expedition, with whom it has fallen in love.
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It Came From Outer Space Script

Script by:Harry Essex (Screenplay), Ray Bradbury (Story)
Directed by:Jack Arnold
Year:1953
IMDb:tt0045920

Plot:Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
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The Incredible Shrinking Man Script

Script by:Richard Matheson (Novel), Richard Matheson (Screenplay), Richard Alan Simmons (Screenplay)
Directed by:Jack Arnold
Year:1957
IMDb:tt0050539

Plot:While on a boating trip, Scott Carey is exposed to a radioactive cloud. Nothing seems amiss at first, but several months later Scott realizes that he's shrunk in height by several inches. He sees a doctor, who admits that he's baffled. As Scott continues to shrink, decreasing to three feet tall, he becomes bitter, and lashes out at his wife, Louise. He begins to fear a cure will never be found -- since even as he becomes a national sensation, he's still shrinking.
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The Tattered Dress Script

Script by:George Zuckerman (Writer)
Directed by:Jack Arnold
Year:1957
IMDb:tt0051058

Plot:After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...
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