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Monster on the Campus (1958)
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David Duncan (writer)
Release Date:
1 May 1959 (Finland)
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Tagline:
Co-ed beauty captive of man-monster! Campus terror! Students victims of terror-beast!
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The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid. full summary | add synopsis
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Well worth watching if you like scary fun
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Arthur Franz | ... | Prof. Donald Blake | |
| Joanna Moore | ... | Madeline Howard | |
| Judson Pratt | ... | Lieutenant Mike Stevens | |
| Nancy Walters | ... | Sylvia Lockwood | |
| Troy Donahue | ... | Jimmy Flanders | |
| Phil Harvey | ... | Sergeant Powell | |
| Helen Westcott | ... | Nurse Molly Riordan | |
| Alexander Lockwood | ... | Professor Gilbert Howard | |
| Whit Bissell | ... | Dr. Oliver Cole | |
| Ross Elliott | ... | Sergeant Eddie Daniels |
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77 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Professor Donald Blake (Arthur Franz) has a collection of facial reconstructions depicting the ascent of man from the early hominids to modern man (or woman in this case, actress Joanna Moore). One of them is that of Piltdown Man, whose "discovery" in 1912 was exposed as a hoax in 1953, five years before the movie was released.
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Crew or equipment visible: As the Professor injects himself with coelacanth plasma, the camera pushes in slowly on the reel-to-reel tape recorder. The cameraman's shadow can be seen briefly on its front panel.
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Professor Donald Blake:
Unless we learn to control the instincts we/ve inherited from our ape-like ancestors, the race is doomed.
Madeline Howard: Why don't you learn to control your instincts and stop being so pessimistic?
Professor Donald Blake: You know, you're right, and when I look at you, the future's very bright.
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Madeline Howard: Why don't you learn to control your instincts and stop being so pessimistic?
Professor Donald Blake: You know, you're right, and when I look at you, the future's very bright.
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Referenced in The Deadly Spawn (1983)
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Although this film reportedly wasn't one of director Jack Arnold's favorites, I personally have enjoyed it very much through many viewings. The story is a Jekyll-Hyde variation, but it offers real suspense and some genuine scares from a director that knows how. The only (minor) disappointment is the creature's makeup (not seen 'til near the end), which unfortunately is revealed to us in a brightly-lit room; makeups like this are more effective when glimpsed fleetingly in the dark. That small quibble aside, this film offers lots of scary fun for those in the mood. (The same can be said of Arnold's earlier films for the same studio, "It Came From Outer Space" (1953) and "Tarantula" (1955).