The incredible shrinking man

DVD 1957

Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity₂s place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller⁵ and smaller⁵ and smaller until he₂s left to fend for...

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Radioactive substances Fiction

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Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1100 Criterion collection ; 1100 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681438856

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (81 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 1.0
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Notes:

Based on the novel by Richard Matheson
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957
Special features: New audio commentary with Tom Weaver and David Schecter; new program on the film's special effects by Craig Barron and Ben Burtt; new conversation between Joe Dante and Dana Gould; Auteur on campus: Jack Arnold at Universal (Director's cut) (2021); interview from 2016 with Richard Cristian Matheson; interview with Jack Arnold from 1983; 8mm home-cinema version from 1957; trailer and teaser narrated by Orson Welles; essay by Geoffrey O'Brien
Title from container
Director of photography, Ellis W. Carter; film editor, Al Joseph
Randy Stuart, Grant Williams, April Kent, Paul Langton
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 1.0
For private home use only
Audio tracks in English, captions in English

Contents:

Disc 1. The incredible shrinking man (DVD)
Disc 2. Bonus disc (DVD)

Control Number:

1160476

UPC:

025192095443
715515265218

Other Authors:

Arnold, Jack, 1916-1992, film director
Carter, Ellis, director of photography
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Joseph, Albrecht, 1901-1991, editor of moving image work
Kent, April, -1998, actor
Langton, Paul, 1913-1980, actor
Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013, screenwriter
Stuart, Randy, 1924-1996, actor
Williams, Grant, 1931-1985, actor
Zugsmith, Albert, film producer
motion picture adaptation of (work): Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013. Incredible shrinking man

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