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Encyclopedia > The Monolith Monsters
The Monolith Monsters

Film poster
Directed by John Sherwood
Produced by Howard Christie
Written by Story:
Jack Arnold
Robert M. Fresco
Screenplay:
Norman Jolley
Robert M. Fresco
Starring Grant Williams
Lola Albright
Les Tremayne
Linda Scheley
Trevor Bardett
Phil Harvey
William Flaherty
Uncredited:
Troy Donahue
Paul Peterson
Music by Uncredited:
Henry Mancini
Irving Getz
Herman Stein
Cinematography Ellis W. Carter
Editing by Patrick McCormack
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) Flag of the United States January 28, 1958
Running time 77 min.
All Movie Guide profile
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The Monolith Monsters (1957) is a science fiction film starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright. It is based on a story by Jack Arnold. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (447x700, 258 KB) This image is of a film poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the film or the studio which produced the film in question. ... John Sherwood is an author of fiction. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Grant Williams was born August 18, 1930 of Scottish parents. ... Lola Albright Lola Albright (born July 20, 1925 in Akron, Ohio) is an American singer and actress. ... Phil Harvey (1938) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and libertarian who over the past 30 years has set up large scale programs that deliver subsidized contraceptives in poor countries, has supported freedom of speech issues in the US--all with profits from an American commercial enterprise that sells sex-related... Troy Donahue Troy Donahue (January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American actor, known for being a teen idol. ... For the actor and novelist, William Paul Petersen, see Paul Petersen. ... Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994), was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Grant Williams was born August 18, 1930 of Scottish parents. ... Lola Albright Lola Albright (born July 20, 1925 in Akron, Ohio) is an American singer and actress. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

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Synopsis

A meteor crashes near a small town in the American desert southwest. One of a pair of geologists finds a piece of it in a roadway and, not recognizing the mineral, takes it back to their laboratory to study. In the morning his partner finds the lab wrecked and the man himself petrified. It is eventually determined that the substance composing the meteor uses water as a catalyst. If wet it grows into black, crystal-like shafts which absorbs all available silica nearby, including from any animals or humans who come in contact with it. Once all silica is absorbed and grown to its fullest possible height, the shaft becomes dormant, but may easily totter and collapse, shattering into a legion of fragments, waiting to grow entire new shafts at the next contact with water. The original meteor has also shattered all about the area where it crashed. A local schoolgirl on a field trip takes a piece home and puts it in water ... her farmhouse is later found demolished, and the girl near death. She's rushed to the city and kept barely alive in an iron lung. The big problem for the town is a rain storm is on the way.... Our hero races time to find a treatment for the little girl and protect the town from the onslaught of the towering, destructive Monolith Monsters.


Production notes

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Popular culture

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External links

  • The Monolith Monsters at the Internet Movie Database
  • Movie review at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Alternative Film Guide review of film
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The Monolith Monsters (1957) - The Bad Movie Report (995 words)
This is also accompanied by that Universal library stock monster music that you've heard in a dozen movies, so we know that this is significant.
The acting is all capable, the direction is crisp and clean, and the monolith FX are more than adequate.
The Monolith Monsters, formulaic as it is, benefits greatly from the title characters, if you can call an inorganic substance a character.
THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) (2663 words)
The Monolith Monsters remains one of the few genre movies of the period that does not feature the active involvement of the military.
The Monolith Monsters, one of less than a handful of solo directorial credits for Sherwood, was the second project that he had taken inherited from Arnold, after the final entry in the "Creature" trilogy The Creature Walks Among Us (56).
Ultimately, The Monolith Monsters can be viewed as a success due to the strikingly unique nature of the threat posed by its alien visitor, the startling locations and the production's superb technical credits which act as a guide on how to be creative and imaginative with restricted resources.
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