Earth vs the Spider (1958)
Director:
Bert I. Gordon
Tagline:
« IT MUST EAT YOU TO LIVE! (original print ad-all caps) »
Actors:
Professor Art Kingman
Carol Flynn
Mike Simpson
Sheriff Cagle
Mr. Simpson
Rating:
(4’088 votes)
(4’088 votes)
Quotes:
« Mr. Kingman: Well, speaking of spiders – are you sure rifles are just the thing? Insects have a pretty simple nervous system, sheriff. You could plug holes in one all day and never hit a vital spot. If you want to be on the safe side, call the pest control people in Springdale and have 'em send out all the DDT they can find.
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« Sheriff Cagle: Bring your bug juice and let's go!
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« Pest Control Man: What are we using it on?
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« Sheriff Cagle: Does it make a difference?
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« Pest Control Man: Well, I gotta mix the DDT according to what you want killed.
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« Sheriff Cagle: What do I tell him Professor… . uh, spiders?
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« Pest Control Man: A 2 to 4 percent solution is the usual dose.
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« Professor Art Kingman: Make it 50!
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« Sheriff Cagle: [to a deputy after finding a desiccated body in a cave] Uh, you get back to town and make up a coroner's report. Just put down Jack Flynn as the name and the cause of death… uh…
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« Mr. Kingman: It was a spider drained all the liquid out of his body.
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« Sheriff Cagle: [Officiously] Just put down "cause unknown" and let the coroner worry about the rest. That's the trouble with you eggheads – you jump to conclusions! I know what I see and I see a dead man, but, uh, I don't see any spider.
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Trailer:
Trailer
Runtime:73 minutes
Plots:
Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.
When a man doesn’t come home one night his daughter and her boyfriend go out searching and encounter a giant spider in a cave near the man’s wrecked car. Coming back with the Sheriff, the spider is seemingly killed by DDT spraying, and the body then hauled for storage in the high school gymnasium. However, a loud dose of rock music by a teenage garage band revives the arachnid and sends it rampaging through the town.
In River Falls, in the night, Jack Flynn is driving home his old truck along a lonely road with the birthday gift for his daughter Carol, when he has a car crash. On the next morning, Carol meets her boyfriend and school mate Mike Simpson and asks him to borrow a car to look for her missing father. They find his truck off road and enter in a nearby cave to seek out Jack. They stumble upon with his body and then with a giant cobweb and a spider. They flee and look for Sheriff Cagle to report the incident but the old man believes it is a prank. However, their Professor Art Kingman believes them and forces the sheriff to organize a party to search Jack Flynn. They find that the teenagers are telling the truth and use a large concentration of DDT to kill the spider. Kingsman brings the arachnid to the town to send to the university, but the spider is not dead an brings havoc to River Falls.
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