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The incredible shrinking man / Universal-International presents ; screenplay by Richard Matheson ; produced by Albert Zugsmith ; directed by Jack Arnold.

2-DVD edition.

Widescreen.

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]

2 videodiscs (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

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DVD video

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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.

Criterion collection

Criterion collection.

Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013 -- Film adaptations.

Radioactive substances -- Drama.

Human beings -- Effect of radiation on -- Drama.

Radioactivity -- Drama.

Science fiction films.

Horror films.

Film adaptations.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Arnold, Jack, 1916-1992, film director.

Zugsmith, Albert, film producer.

Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013, screenwriter.

Williams, Grant, 1931-1985, actor.

Stuart, Randy, 1924-1996, actor.

Kent, April, -1998, actor.

Langton, Paul, 1913-1980, actor.

Carter, Ellis, director of photography.

Joseph, Albrecht, 1901-1991, editor of moving image work.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013. Incredible shrinking man.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Based on the novel by Richard Matheson.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

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.

Director of photography, Ellis W. Carter; film editor, Al Joseph.

Randy Stuart, Grant Williams, April Kent, Paul Langton.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.85:1); mono.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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