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Bookmark this pageThe Magnetic Monster (1953)
Director: Curt Siodmak
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From Time Out Film Guide
One of the earnest 'menace to mankind' movies so beloved of sci-fi in the '50s, about an experimentally developed radioactive isotope that keeps consuming energy and doubling in size until it becomes a veritable monster. Crisply done and not at all bad, even though the climax is largely constructed out of footage borrowed from a 1934 German film, Gold.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Curt Siodmak
Producer: Ivan Tors
Cast: Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Jean Byron, Leonard Mudie, Byron Foulger, Harry Ellerbe full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 76 mins
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