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Monster on the Campus (1958)

Director: Jack Arnold

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From Time Out Film Guide

'Is this fish really one million years old?' asks Troy Donahue, pointing at the new specimen at Professor Donald Blake's lab. It sure is, and what's more, if you get infected then you revert to primitive instinctual behaviour. With that in mind, Jack Arnold's hijacking of the Wolf Man plot onto a campus terror tale needs all his talent for making the incredible seem possible: giant dragonflies and million-year-old fish don't quite look so strange as the '50s finned creatures known as automobiles that glide down the campus and suburban avenues. DMacp.

Author: DMacp 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Jack Arnold

Producer: Joseph Gershenson

Cast: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Troy Donahue, Whit Bissell, Judson Pratt, Helen Westcott, Eddie Parker full cast

Genre(s): Horror

Duration: 76 mins


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