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Fin dal secondo film, St Came From The Outer Space (1951),
da una storia di Ray Bradbury,
An amateur astronomer, John, is romancing his girl, Ellen,
when a giant meteor crashes in the nearby desert.
An amoebic creature emerges from the crash and disappears in the night.
The astronomer, his girl and a friend rush to the site and find a giant crater,
still smoking. John ventures inside the inferno and discovers a spherical
spaceship. The giant eye of the jelly is staring at him. The door of the
spaceship is closed and a rockfall bury the spaceship, while John narrowly
escapes. The sheriff refuses to believe his story. On the way back home,
John and Ellen see the giant eyeball staring at them.
The story is derided by newspapers and radios.
But the following day two telephone workers are ambushed by the giant eyeball.
John and Ellen find their abandoned truck. They look for them, and find one,
who talks like a zombie. John notices a lifeless body hidden behind a rock,
and back rushes to town.
As he leaves, the zombie-like telephone worker walks back and faces the two
telephone workers, one of them his own double, who are coming back to life.
The zombie tells them that he has the power to duplicate bodies, but also
tells them they don't need to be afraid.
When John and Ellen return with the sheriff, the truck is gone and all the
evidence has disappeared.
Back in town, John and Ellen see the two telephone workers walking on a
sidewalk. John confronts them and they warn him to leave them alone, and
promise they will soon leave. The eyeball makes more victims, and electrical
equipment is stolen from the hardware store. John keeps investiganting and
the aliens kidnap his girlfriend. John rushes to the crater,
sees Ellen and follows her to the abandoned mine where the aliens are
repairing their spaceship: a voice tells him that they only
want time to repair their spaceship. He demands to see the face of the voice
(god only knows why), and a horrible monster appears.
Now the sheriff not only believes him but even wants to destroy them,
and John has begs him in vain to leave them alone.
As the sheriff launches his senseless attack against the spaceship,
John enters the mine to free Ellen. The aliends, now led by a double of
John himself, don't trust him anymore. They are aiming their laser weapon
at the humans. John convinces them to release Ellen and all the other
hostages that they have duplicated as a sign of good will, to avoid war.
John blows up the entrance to the mine to keep the sheriff's men from
entering it. The aliens have time to take off.
Jack Arnold si specializzo' nel genere fantascientifico:
Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)
An explorer and his scouts in the Amazon Forest finds a giant fossil claw.
A group of scientists, a young attractive woman, Kay, and her fiance' David
examine the odd relic.
They decide to set out on an exploration adventure, led by the
brilliant David, but don't know that the creature got back alive and already
killed one of the scientist's scouts.
Kay is about to be grabbed by a claw emerging from the lagoon when David
calls her into the tent.
The captain of their boat tells them the legend of the monster of the black
lagoon, the "Gillman".
Instead of deterring them, it convinces them to head for the lagoon,
particularly the ruthless and greedy Mark, who is also in love with Kay.
As they dive into the lagoon, the creature (half man, half fish) spies on
them, particularly on Kay swimming alone. She doesn't realize that the monster
almost got her.
The creature is betrayed by its curiosity and, after boarding the boat and
attacking the crew, is eventually captured by the scientists/divers.
Gillman escapes and keeps attacking the boat.
Mark and David fight the creature sees them underwater, and Mark is killed.
The creature then kidnaps Kay and takes her into his cave (a` la King Kong).
David rescues her and the crew shoots the monster that swims away wounded.
Revenge Of The Creature (1955)
Tarantula (1955).
Man in the Shadow (1957) is a police thriller.
Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) e` il suo capolavoro.
Durante una vacanza in mare con sua moglie,
Scott viene investito da una misteriosa nube.
Mesi dopo si rende conto che il suo corpo sta rimpicciolendo. I dottori
sono sbigottiti. La notizia si sparge in tutto il mondo e il disgraziato
viene perseguitato da giornalisti e curiosi. Gli scienziati riescono ad
arrestare il processo di rimpicciolimento, ma non a farlo ritornare alle
dimensioni originali. Scott ha appena tempo di fare amicizia con una nana
che il processo riprende. In breve l'uomo si riduce alle dimensioni di un topo.
Vive in una casa-giocattolo in salotto, accudito in tutto dalla moglie.
Un gatto che entra in casa quasi lo sbrana. Lui sfugge alla belva, ma cade
in una scatola, la moglie non lo trova quando rientra e pensa che sia stato
mangiato. La notizia viene data alla televisione. Intanto Scott si riprende,
ormai minuscolo, e deve persino fronteggiare un ragno. Poi rischia di annegare
quando una perdita cede del tutto e il pavimento viene allagato. Il disastro
attira la moglie e un amico. Scott si dispera invano: non lo sentono.
Continua a rimpicciolire e le speranze di essere mai salvato svaniscono.
Rimane solo, a difendersi dalle mille insidie del suo nuovo habitat.
Arnold porta al genere il frequente ricorso ai trucchi e l'uso del paesaggio minaccioso
(deserti notturni, pianure, zone desolate, jungle) a fini di suspance. Nel complesso fu
maestro dell'orrore dovuto ai mostri.
High School Confidential (1958) sulla sotto-cultura delinquenziale degli adolescenti del
rock and roll.
In The Mouse That Raged (1959),
satira della Guerra Fredda e della minaccia nucleare,
Sellers impersona la duchessa, il principe, il generale, sempre goffo e surreale.
Sellers e' il principe di un piccolo stato europeo
rovinato dalla concorrenza del vino californiano; decide di dichiarare guerra all'America,
sperando che poi l'America aiuti gli sconfitti come aiuto' Germania e Giappone. Il generale
che sbarca a New York con venti uomini riesce pero' ad impadronirsi di una potente arma,
del suo inventore, della sua attraente figlia, e a vincere la guerra.
No Name On The Bullet (1959)
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