cult film freak: grant williams

Written by James M. Tate / 11/26/2025 / No comments / fifties , grant williams , horror , jack arnold , les tremayne , lola albright , paul frees , science-fiction , thriller , troy donahue

LOLA ALBRIGHT & GRANT WILLIAMS IN 'THE MONOLITH MONSTERS'

<p></p><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/AVvXsEicQluAMPYhiUtc0yN4v-QBm2A9DxHT3xChZ0v-RrnlCs0d1Dg5-t2Y4qRsx34RjkEqn2fkob6aXvTPW5XAAVimEntudzmACTwJHOQrx9EUguXxPUOy85JxjlegD5VDguEdXmS1Z3hdWdyLaEU6ikNVHK7RvzeQy1ZY9NOQBt_XgROV6M-0Re-szKIBH-QO/s2794/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-30%20at%207.51.08%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQluAMPYhiUtc0yN4v-QBm2A9DxHT3xChZ0v-RrnlCs0d1Dg5-t2Y4qRsx34RjkEqn2fkob6aXvTPW5XAAVimEntudzmACTwJHOQrx9EUguXxPUOy85JxjlegD5VDguEdXmS1Z3hdWdyLaEU6ikNVHK7RvzeQy1ZY9NOQBt_XgROV6M-0Re-szKIBH-QO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-30%20at%207.51.08%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lola Albright in THE MONOLITH MONSTERS Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair and soft voice, is perfect for science-fiction as he passively allows strange things to happen around him... even when vanishing into thin air for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/05/shrinkwrapup.html">THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN</a>, and, here as a small town cop, he's partnered with a old scientist to figure out how giant monoliths are growing out of the earth...</p><p></p><p>Which eventually look fantastic as they crash into a raging river... but these titular MONOLITH MONSTERS never seem that formidable, and are more dangerous in semi-suspenseful scenes leading up... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

fifties, grant williams, horror, jack arnold, les tremayne, lola albright, paul frees, science-fiction, thriller, troy donahue

LOLA ALBRIGHT & GRANT WILLIAMS IN 'THE MONOLITH MONSTERS'

Lola Albright in THE MONOLITH MONSTERS Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2 Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair a...

Written by James M. Tate / 5/07/2023 / No comments / action , adventure , april kent , cult , fifties , grant williams , jack arnold , randy stuart , richard matheson , science-fiction , universal monsters , william schallert

DIRECTOR JACK ARNOLD'S 'THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN'

<p></p><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/AVvXsEjCUHeMWsRUW3dtJlfai-AxDU4bPUnHAyKs8Op64ifJi6GEJdx1nxy2p3kc07dbC5jn0kyw0Ak74mlG6rjs8X6ljsGnQqavpk6FVvDGra_vP7uW1LGNtZB00TNnDD7UycfOgNYubxkqS4gawEjTJqOPmMN0RQ8UHGcSxtjA_H8vSzhgM-JZ-UAqCKbcZA/s995/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-07%20at%207.36.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="995" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCUHeMWsRUW3dtJlfai-AxDU4bPUnHAyKs8Op64ifJi6GEJdx1nxy2p3kc07dbC5jn0kyw0Ak74mlG6rjs8X6ljsGnQqavpk6FVvDGra_vP7uW1LGNtZB00TNnDD7UycfOgNYubxkqS4gawEjTJqOPmMN0RQ8UHGcSxtjA_H8vSzhgM-JZ-UAqCKbcZA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-07%20at%207.36.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Jack Arnold had a way of taking the most fantastical stories and making them seem completely grounded, even normal... from aliens landing in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/10/IT.html">IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE</a>, a giant arachnid attack for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/09/TARANTULAlland.html">TARANTULA</a>, or in this case, a grown man shrinking as THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN...</p><p>In the first act, when Grant Williams goes from doctor to doctor, trying to figure out why his work-clothes keep outgrowing him, it's like a separate movie... a kind of intentionally uncomfortable melodrama told in a slow-burn, semi-nightmarish, page-turning fashion... much different than the suspenseful action-packed survival-tale involving a comparably gigantic cat and spider the movie's most famous for...</p>

action, adventure, april kent, cult, fifties, grant williams, jack arnold, randy stuart, richard matheson, science-fiction, universal monsters, william schallert

DIRECTOR JACK ARNOLD'S 'THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN'

Title: THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 Director Jack Arnold had a way of taking the most fantastical stories and maki...

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