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Written by James M. Tate / 4/06/2023 / No comments / action , cult , dinosaur , exploitation , fifties , horror , irvin s. yeaworth jr. , jack harris , james congdon , jazz score , lee meriwether , robert fields , robert lansing , sixties , steve mcqueen , suspense , thriller

STEVE MCQUEEN IN THE ORIGINAL LEGENDARY CLASSIC 'THE BLOB'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDsuFtjyrWUVDH7BhgL91grP10vXlJaXxuVMxP4IeDSO1TIxBtMheS6LufjkHwTCWNYIhzIhNS2XyREviZUuIYjTD5iosFimWgM5QDDy9bSgFUWUwo544ORY6gdr5VU266k40GwerMeDwmWGRliB8_dJLC_nvNodRJPAHCuTMsv6edsq-TrLKJZn_ywBUc/s1309/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-05%20at%209.31.48%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDsuFtjyrWUVDH7BhgL91grP10vXlJaXxuVMxP4IeDSO1TIxBtMheS6LufjkHwTCWNYIhzIhNS2XyREviZUuIYjTD5iosFimWgM5QDDy9bSgFUWUwo544ORY6gdr5VU266k40GwerMeDwmWGRliB8_dJLC_nvNodRJPAHCuTMsv6edsq-TrLKJZn_ywBUc/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-05%20at%209.31.48%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steve McQueen in THE BLOB Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>During
 the prelude of an eclectic and highly successful career, Steve McQueen,
 billed as Steven McQueen as a guy named Steve, has never played a 
character so untrusted, underrated or downright frustratingly 
unappreciated...He knows what everyone, including his best girl, has 
strong, stubborn doubts about. And we're not only supposed to believe 
that the rugged-looking, world-weary McQueen is a teenager but that he'd
 actually get taunted, goaded and borderline bullied by bunch 
of small town car-jerks who look as if they'd follow him...

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STEVE MCQUEEN IN THE ORIGINAL LEGENDARY CLASSIC 'THE BLOB'

Steve McQueen in THE BLOB Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2 During the prelude of an eclectic and highly successful career, Steve McQueen, billed ...

THE BLOB'S JACK HARRIS & IRVIN YEAWORTH JR. PRESENT '4D MAN'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Lansing's got mail in 4D MAN Year: 1959</td></tr>
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Robert Lansing can make just about anything believable. His performance in director Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr. and producer Jack H. Harris's sophomore vehicle 4D MAN is slowburn, natural and patient: Like their THE BLOB, the plot takes time to not only build, but to make things understandable 
since the hard-to-explain science isn't a gooey space 
alien... 
 
As close to Noir as these filmmakers got, 4D MAN is about flawed humans like Lee Meriwether and
 James Congdon as the assistant and brother of our leading man, 
Lansing's Dr. Scott Nelson: the latter busy at a corporate lab to make 
what's called "Cargonite" stronger than steel. In the acting department, James
 Congdon's Dr. Tony Nelson, though high-spirited and intense, seems 
either miscast, acting more like a small town quarterback than a brilliant scientist on the 
verge of a literal breakthrough; or perhaps he's just underwhelming 
compared to Lansing, who's broodingly tortured even before it becomes literal...

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THE BLOB'S JACK HARRIS & IRVIN YEAWORTH JR. PRESENT '4D MAN'

Robert Lansing's got mail in 4D MAN Year: 1959 Robert Lansing can make just about anything believable. His performance in director I...

JACK H. HARRIS & IRVIN S. YEAWORTH JR. PRESENT 'DINOSAURUS!'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">DINOSAURUS battles a tractor in this obscure cult flick from 1960</td></tr>
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Every cult sleeper phenom is eventually considered a classic; even those that don't sleep at all and, with zero expectations, score huge at the box office upon release... 
 
But THE BLOB, one of the most popular b-movies of all time, was a complete accident and not altogether perfect. Director Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. was really, deep down, anything but tremendously capable, at first: His initial forte was religious filmmaking – what would be considered propaganda now... 
 
And this BLOB idea might just make Yeaworth and producer Jack Harris a little money to sustain their good work, and, well, obviously the duo found gold. Not the film's star, though, a young Steve McQueen playing a teenager in his twenties and looking in his early-thirties, who decided, given the script and title, to pass on the gross cut – a Goliath mistake he spent the rest of his life angry about, even after becoming one of the biggest (and highest paid) stars in Hollywood following THE GREAT ESCAPE.

creature, dinosaur, irvin s. yeaworth jr., jack h. harris, sixties

JACK H. HARRIS & IRVIN S. YEAWORTH JR. PRESENT 'DINOSAURUS!'

DINOSAURUS battles a tractor in this obscure cult flick from 1960 Every cult sleeper phenom is eventually considered a classic; even tho...

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