Leo G. Carroll, “The Parent Trap” (1961), is the Professor. He was working with a formula that made things grow, really grow. He is a good guy and is trying to find an answer to world hunger. There is a difference of opinion, and the scuffle starts a fire. The professor gets injected, and the tarantula escapes.
John Agar, “The Brain from Planet Arous” (1957), gets to be Doctor Matt Hastings, the good guy.
Clint Eastwood, “Dirty Harry” (1971), is a fighter pilot and gets to bomb the tarantula.
I saw this at the movies when I was a kid. The creature had a habit of leaving white stuff everywhere it did its thing. The film broke for a commercial at that time and was advertising tooth powder.” Powder your teeth. Don’t paste them.” I cringe at the sight of white tooth powder to this day.
So, an alternate title for this movie could be “Daddy-Longlegs.”
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