The Blob

The Blob
Theatrical release poster
Directed byIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Screenplay by
Based onIdea
by Irving H. Millgate
Produced byJack H. Harris
Starring
CinematographyThomas E. Spalding
Edited byAlfred Hillmann
Music byRalph Carmichael
Production
companies
  • Fairview Productions
  • Tonylyn Productions
  • Valley Forge Films
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • September 12, 1958 (1958-09-12) (United States)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$110,000[1]
Box office$4 million[1]

The Blob is a 1958 American science fiction horror film directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. from a screenplay by Theodore Simonson and Kate Phillips, based on an idea by Irving H. Millgate.[2] It stars Steve McQueen (in his first leading role) and Aneta Corsaut and co-stars Earl Rowe and Olin Howland.

The film concerns a carnivorous amoeboidal alien that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite, landing near the small communities of Phoenixville and Downingtown, Pennsylvania. It envelops living beings, growing larger, becoming redder in color and more aggressive, eventually becoming larger than a building.

The Blob was distributed by Paramount Pictures as a double feature with I Married a Monster from Outer Space.

  1. ^ a b Weaver 2002, p. 91.
  2. ^ "The Blob". Trailers From Hell.[full citation needed]

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