Tarantula (1955) ( The Giant Tarantula )

Tarantula (1955) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Giant Tarantula
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
77 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1955 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jack Arnold

Written By:
Robert M. Fresco
Martin Berkeley

Actors:
John Agar ..... Dr. Matt Hastings
Mara Corday ..... Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton
Leo G. Carroll ..... Prof. Gerald Deemer
Nestor Paiva ..... Sheriff Jack Andrews
Ross Elliott ..... Joe Burch
Edwin Rand ..... Lt. John Nolan
Raymond Bailey ..... Townsend
Hank Patterson ..... Josh
Bert Holland ..... Barney Russell
Steve Darrell ..... Andy Andersen

Synopsis:

Kindly Dr. Reemer (Leo G. Carroll) has big plans for his new radioactive serum. It makes animals grow at a fantastic rate, and this could solve the world's food shortage, but when an accident at his Arizona laboratory leads to a tarantula injected with the serum escaping, havoc results. The eerily silent desert is soon a lot scarier, as cattle and humans start disappearing at an alarming rate. Local doctor Matt Hastings (John Agar) and Reemer's shapely assistant (Mara Corday) finally figure out what's going on after the enormous spider attacks the house where she is staying.

Professor Gerald Deemer has been working on a special nutrient to help ease a predicted food shortage that is expected to come with the increase in human population. His experiments have been moderately successful but there have been some failures as a result. One day while he is gone two of his colleagues inject themselves with the nutrient with disastrous results and die a few days later. One however goes mad and injects Deemer with the formula. During a struggle, a giant tarantula injected with the formula escapes its cage and grows even larger and starts to attack cattle as well as human beings.

When a tarantula which has been injected with a special nutrient formula escapes from a scientist's laboratory, it grows into a 100-foot beast that menaces the Arizona countryside.

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