Tarantula | |
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Directed by | Jack Arnold |
Screenplay by | |
Story by |
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Based on | "No Food for Thought" (teleplay, Science Fiction Theatre, May 17, 1955) by Robert M. Fresco[1][2] |
Produced by | William Alland |
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Cinematography | George Robinson |
Edited by | William Morgan |
Music by | |
Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal-International |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.1 million (US and Canadian rentals)[3] |
Tarantula is a 1955 American science-fiction monster film produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold. It stars John Agar, Mara Corday, and Leo G. Carroll. The film is about a scientist developing a miracle nutrient to feed a rapidly growing human population. In its unperfected state, the nutrient causes extraordinarily rapid growth, creating a deadly problem when a tarantula test subject escapes and continues to grow larger and larger. The screenplay by Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley was based on a story by Arnold, which was in turn inspired by Fresco's teleplay for the 1955 Science Fiction Theatre episode "No Food for Thought", also directed by Arnold.[1] The film was distributed by Universal Pictures as a Universal-International release, and reissued in 1962 through Sherman S. Krellberg's Ultra Pictures.
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