Tarantula

Starring: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, et al.

Product Description

You can run and you can hide but there is no escaping the sci-fi classic Tarantula about a science experiment gone horribly wrong! When biochemist Leo Carroll (John Agar) decides to feed the world by using a special growth formula on plants and animals, he instead creates a spider of mammoth proportions with an appetite to match. Escaping from the laboratory and feeding off cattle and humans, this towering tarantula has the people of Desert Rock, Arizona, running for their lives. Can this horrible creature be stopped or will the world succumb to this oversized arachnid?

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 025192096839
• Release Date: September 2013
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Universal Studios
• Director: Jack Arnold
• Starring: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott, Edwin Rand, Raymond Bailey, Hank Patterson, Bert Holland, Steve Darrell
• Runtime: 1 hour, 20 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: ntsc
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

It has got legs, and it knows how to use them.

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.”