Watch: The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: 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.
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Transcendental
The best sci/fi movie of the 50s. It’s different from most others in that it has a theme; it’s not just a series of scary and threatening events. The smaller Scott Carey gets, the braver and more resourceful he becomes. As he shrinks, he reaches a kind of spiritual enlightenment.The only sour note (besides the special effects, which may seem primitive by today’s digital standards, but which I, as an 8-year-old in 1957, seeing this for the first time, thought were astounding) is the scene with the Little People. The metaphor of “you are as big as you feel” is laid on pretty thick, and that particular set of special effects (especially that big coffee cup Clarice drinks out of) didn’t fool me, even as an 8-year-old. Incidentally, up until recently, TV showings of this movie usually cut that scene out, although the names of the actors who played the Little People were left in the end of movie credits.
However, the point is well taken, and Scott realizes that as his physical size decreases, his mental and spiritual powers are increasing. The final scenes are a testament to Transcendentalism. For example, Scott says in the narration that he no longer hates the spider who has been threatening him during his imprisonment in the cellar. He understands that it has as much right to survive as he has. In Transcendental terms, he is saying that existence is neither good nor evil, it simply “is.” (Do people in California really have tarantulas in their cellars?) The wonderful last scene, where Scott (the absolutely gorgeous Grant Williams), bruised, battered, exhausted, looks up at the heavens and is no longer afraid, is one of the most empowering scenes in all cinema. This man has been so beaten down by fate that he is literally disappearing, and yet he affirms existence, and resolutely continues to move forward to whatever that next plane of existence may be. This ending is a far cry from the usual finales of sci/fi films of the 50s, where destruction is generally the resolution of the crisis. Here, there is no destruction, only transcendence. I never get tired of this film.
One Of The Best Eisenhower Era Science Fiction Films
This is the tale of the very cruel joke played upon a young man by Fate. Against horrifying odds he triumphs and retains his dignity. In so doing, this film is raised from being a merely superior monster movie to one of strangely spiritual significance.The special effects are still pleasing and the tarantula remains one of Cinema’s truly terrifying embodiments of mindless evil.
This was to be Grant William’s finest film. He died in 1985 at the age of only 54.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 21 min (81 min)
Budget 750000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi
Director Jack Arnold
Writer Richard Matheson, Richard Alan Simmons
Actors Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Universal Studios Laboratory, USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm