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Monster on the Campus (1958)
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1 May 1959 (Finland) moreTagline:
Co-ed beauty captive of man-monster! Campus terror! Students victims of terror-beast!Plot:
The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Fun 50's Sci-Fi! more (30 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Arthur Franz | ... | Prof. Donald Blake | |
| Joanna Moore | ... | Madeline Howard | |
| Judson Pratt | ... | Lieutenant Mike Stevens | |
| Nancy Walters | ... | Sylvia Lockwood | |
| Troy Donahue | ... | Jimmy Flanders | |
| Phil Harvey | ... | Sergeant Powell | |
| Helen Westcott | ... | Nurse Molly Riordan | |
| Alexander Lockwood | ... | Professor Gilbert Howard | |
| Whit Bissell | ... | Dr. Oliver Cole | |
| Ross Elliott | ... | Sergeant Eddie Daniels |
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77 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Professor Donald Blake (Arthur Franz) has a collection of facial reconstructions depicting the ascent of man from the early hominids to modern man (or woman in this case, actress Joanna Moore). One of them is that of Piltdown Man, whose "discovery" in 1912 was exposed as a hoax in 1953, five years before the movie was released. moreGoofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Just before sergeant Daniels encounters the monster, he is talking on a police phone box. He tells the person that he is at call box B-26. However, in very large letters, the box is identified as E-26. moreQuotes:
Professor Donald Blake: Ah, the human female in the perfect state - helpless and silent. moreMovie Connections:
Featured in "Son of Svengoolie: Monster on the Campus (1958) (#1.80)" (1981) moreFAQ
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I've always enjoyed this film that turned out to be Jack Arnolds last horror film and I really do not understand why some people think this is awful. There are some flicks that you don't have to take seriously and all you have to do is sit back and have fun watching. Sure, its silly but most 50's sci-fi is. Why is this worse than others? The music that is used is from other Arnold films most notably "Tarantula" and I'm sure Universal used the same score for countless other movies. A lot of Arnold regulars pop up like Whit Bissell, Phil Harvey, Ross Elliott, Richard Cutting and of course Mr. Ziffel, Hank Patterson! Eddie Parker plays the monster here in make-up, not Arthur Franz and Parker was also in "Tarantula" in two roles. Both as lab assistance who die of that deforming disease. Troy Donahue in one of his early roles is Jimmy and he's especially wooden. But Arnold knows exactly how to tell a story no matter how silly and the scene with the giant dragonfly is fun, so is the whole movie.