jptuttleb Review of Land of the Giants

Land of the Giants (1968–1970)

An Observation about Cats and Little People in Hollywood

[25 May 2017]

Irwin Allen, the creator and producer of the Land of the Giants series, was involved with Hollywood productions for decades. Land of the Giants was not the first screen story that depicted a cat chasing and endangering very tiny people. In both Dr. Cyclops (1940) and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), there is a tabby cat terrorizing unnaturally small human beings. These were obviously released prior to Land of the Giants (1968-1970). Irwin Allen was probably influenced and inspired by either or both of these films.