THE INCREDIBLE SHRINK
HE INCREDIBLE SHRINK
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ROCK, PRETTY BABY (Universal-International) Y Cert. CTING upon misinformation received, which led me to believe that I could make the acquaintance of The Incredible Shrinking Man and be home in time for supper, I found myself forced to sit out the cacophonies of the second feature first (a rock and roll ordeal with delinquent overtones which I wouldn’t recommend even to an Inland Revenue officer). I really doubt if the science fiction item was worth the effort, but by itself it is sufficiently offbeat to be intriguing. Apart from clever trick photography (of which there is a great deal), the interesting thing about the shrinking man is that though, by molecular disturbance, he keeps diminishing in size until he is fighting gigantic spiders with a pin that looks like a broadsword, he still keeps an adult-sized mind. And that’s more than a lot of full-size screen characters do. The ending, too, is entirely unexpected,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 21
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165THE INCREDIBLE SHRINK HE INCREDIBLE SHRINK New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 21
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