Tarantula!

thumb Tarantula! is a 1955 film about a spider escaping from a laboratory and growing to gigantic size. ''Directed by Jack Arnold. Written by Martin Berkeley. Science's Deadliest Accident  (taglines) Prof. Gerald Deemer The history of medicine is the history of the unusual. Dr. Matt Hastings I may be just a country doctor, but I know what I know. The desert, it gives people wonderful ideas! Give women the vote and what do you get? Lady scientists. Other Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton: Science or no science, a girl's got to get her hair done. Andy Andersen: I never saw anything like it! No footprints! No blood! No sign of a struggle! The bones just stripped clean like peeling a banana! Dialogue Prof. Gerald Deemer: The disease of hunger, like most diseases, well, it spreads. There are 2 billion people in the world today. In 1975 there'll be 3 billion. In the year 2000, there'll be 3,625,000,000. The world may not be able to produce enough food to feed all these people. Now perhaps you'll understand what an inexpensive nutrient will mean. Dr. Matt Hastings: Well, not many of us look that far in the future, sir. Prof. Gerald Deemer: Our business is the future. No man can do it on his own, of course. You don't pull it out of your hat like a magician's rabbit. You - well, you build on what hundreds of others have learned before you. Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton: What does it look like? Dr. Matt Hastings: Oh, like something from another life scienc... quiet, yet strangely evil as if it were hiding its secrets from man. Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton: You make it sound so creepy. Dr. Matt Hastings: The unknown always is. Dr. Matt Hastings: But what if circumstances magnified one of them in size and strength, took it out of its primitive world, and turned it loose in ours? Prof. Townsend: Then expect something that's fiercer, more cruel and deadly than anything that ever walked on earth! Taglines More terrifying than any horror known to man comes a creeping crawling monster whose towering fury no one can escape! Science-fiction's most terrifying thrill! Even Science was stunned! Cast Leo G. Carroll — Prof. Gerald Deemer John Agar — Dr. Matt Hastings Mara Corday — Stephanie Clayton Nestor Paiva — Sheriff Jack Andrews Ross Elliott — Joe Burch External links 0048696 Tarantula Category:Universal Monsters film series Category:Natural horror films Category:Films about spiders Category:Films directed by Jack Arnold Category:Films set in Arizona Category:Films about size change Category:1955 American films Category:1955 English-language films Category:1955 horror films Category:American monster movies Category:American science fiction horror films Category:English-language science fiction horror films Category:Films set in deserts