The incredible shrinking man
1957
DVD
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 himself in a world in which ordinary cats, mousetraps, and spiders pose a mortal threat, all while grappling with a diminishing sense of himself. Directed by the prolific creature-feature impresario Jack Arnold with ingenious optical effects and a transcendent metaphysical ending, The Incredible Shrinking Man gazes with wonder and trepidation into the unknowable vastness of the cosmic void.
Item Details
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).
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC3303DDVD
- 10490572
Control Number: 1160476
UPC:
- 715515265218
- 025192095443
Series:
Subjects:
- Human beings -- Effect of radiation on -- Fiction.
- Radioactive substances -- Fiction.
- Radioactivity -- Fiction.
Genre:
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.