Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- radiation
- cat
- giant spider
- surrealism
- shrinking
- radioactivity
- basement
- miniaturization
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Raymond Bailey — Doctor Thomas Silver
- William Schallert — Doctor Arthur Bramson
- Frank J. Scannell — Barker
- Helene Marshall — Nurse
- Diana Darrin — Nurse
- Billy Curtis — Midget
- Charles Perry — Spieler (uncredited)
- Chet Brandenburg — Balloon Vendor (uncredited)
- John Hiestand — KIRL TV Newscaster (uncredited)
- Joe LaBarba — Joe (uncredited)
- Perk Lazelle — Doctor (uncredited)
- Directed
- Jack Arnold
- Written
- Richard Matheson, Richard Alan Simmons
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 572 ratings
- Studio
- Universal International Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
