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The Incredible Shrinking Man ()

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After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
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Scott Carey
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Louise Carey
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Clarice Bruce
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Charlie Carey
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Doctor Thomas Silver
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Doctor Arthur Bramson
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Barker (as Frank Scannell)
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Nurse
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Nurse
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Midget
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Balloon Vendor (uncredited)
John Hiestand ...
KIRL TV Newscaster (uncredited)
Joe LaBarba ...
Joe (uncredited)
Perk Lazelle ...
Doctor (uncredited)
Lock Martin ...
Giant (uncredited)
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Butch the Cat (uncredited)
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Charles Perry ...
Spieler (uncredited)
Luce Potter ...
Violet (uncredited)

Directed by

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Jack Arnold

Written by

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Richard Matheson ... (screenplay by)
 
Richard Matheson ... (from his novel)
 
Richard Alan Simmons ... (screenplay by) (uncredited)

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Albert Zugsmith ... producer (produced by)

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Irving Gertz ... (uncredited)
Earl E. Lawrence ... (uncredited)
Hans J. Salter ... (uncredited)
Herman Stein ... (uncredited)

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Ellis W. Carter ... director of photography

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Albrecht Joseph ... (as Al Joseph)

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Greg Rodin ... 4K Digital Restoration: Universal Pictures (uncredited)

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Robert Clatworthy
Alexander Golitzen

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Russell A. Gausman
Ruby R. Levitt

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Jay A. Morley Jr. ... (gowns)
Martha Bunch ... (uncredited)
Rydo Loshak ... (uncredited)

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Joan St. Oegger ... hair stylist
Bud Westmore ... makeup artist
Virginia Jones ... hairdresser (uncredited)
Jack Kevan ... makeup artist (uncredited)

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Robert Larson ... assistant unit manager (uncredited)
Lew Leary ... unit manager (uncredited)

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William Holland ... assistant director
Wilbur Mosier ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Floyd Farrington ... props (uncredited)
Ed Keyes ... prop master (uncredited)
Whitey McMahon ... prop maker (uncredited)
Roy Neel ... assistant prop master (uncredited)

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Leslie I. Carey ... sound
Robert Pritchard ... sound
Donald Cunliffe ... recordist (uncredited)
Bob Hirsch ... sound editor (uncredited)
Henry Janssen ... cable man (uncredited)
George Ohanian ... sound editor (uncredited)
Roger A. Parish ... mike man (uncredited)

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Cleo E. Baker ... special effects (uncredited)
Fred Knoth ... special effects (uncredited)
Ardell Lytle ... giant match fabricator (uncredited)

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Everett H. Broussard ... optical effects
Roswell A. Hoffmann ... optical effects (as Roswell A. Hoffman)
Clifford Stine ... special photography

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William Dodds ... camera operator (uncredited)
Stanley Guliver ... key grip (uncredited)
Jim Hilbert ... co-grip (uncredited)
Everett Lehman ... best boy (uncredited)
Tom McCrory ... special photography (uncredited)
Tom Ouellette ... gaffer (uncredited)
Robert Pierce ... assistant camera (uncredited)
Richard Walling ... still photographer (uncredited)

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Martha Bunch ... wardrobe woman (uncredited)
Rydo Loshak ... wardrobe man (uncredited)

Music Department

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Ray Anthony ... musician: trumpet soloist
Joseph Gershenson ... music supervisor
Harris Ashburn ... music supervisor (uncredited)
Ethmer Roten ... musician (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Dorothy Hughes ... script supervisor (uncredited)

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Reynold Brown ... movie poster art (uncredited)
Ray Gockel ... coordinator (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Scott Carey and his wife Louise are sunning themselves on their cabin cruiser, the small craft adrift on a calm sea. While his wife is below deck, a low mist passes over him. Scott, lying in the sun, is sprinkled with glittery particles that quickly evaporate. Later he is accidentally sprayed with an insecticide while driving and, in the next few days, he finds that he has begun to shrink. First just a few inches, so that his clothes no longer fit, then a little more. Soon he is only three feet tall, and a national curiosity. At six inches tall he can only live in a doll's house and even that becomes impossible when his cat breaks in. Scott flees to the cellar, his wife thinks he has been eaten by the cat and the door to the cellar is closed, trapping him in the littered room where, menaced by a giant spider, he struggles to survive. Written by alfiehitchie

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Taglines Almost beyond the imagination . . . A strange adventure into the unknown ! [UK Theatrical] See more »
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Also Known As
  • L'homme qui rétrécit (France)
  • Die unglaubliche Geschichte des Mr. C (Germany)
  • El increíble hombre menguante (Spain)
  • Mies joka kutistui (Finland)
  • De krimpende man (Netherlands)
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  • 81 min
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Budget $750,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Richard Matheson's book was written as a series of flashbacks so that you got into the cellar with Scott quickly. Universal insisted on a linear story. They also vetoed key sequences, such as Scott spending the night with the female midget, a drunk homosexual who abuses Scott, a gang of teenagers who terrorize him, and Scott becoming a Peeping Tom secretly spying on a teenage baby-sitter. These were rejected as too risqué for 1957. See more »
Goofs Even though the spider in this film is clearly a tarantula, it is shown sitting in a standard spider web. Tarantulas do not build webs like that. They live in burrows or holes. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999). See more »
Soundtracks The Incredible Shrinking Man Theme See more »
Quotes [last lines]
Scott Carey: I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends is man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!
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