Other Titles • The Killer Shrews • The Attack of the Killer Shrews • Die Nacht der unheimlichen Bestien (1959)
Synopses for The Killer Shrews (1959)
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Product Description THE KILLER SHREWS They Devour Bones, Flesh, Marrow…Everything. Best known as Deputy Festus Haggen on Gunsmoke, Ken Curtis produced and co-stars in this schlock classic about giant shrews that consume their body weight every eight hours. James Best is Thorne Sherman, forced by a hurricane to take refuge on the isolated island of Dr. Marlowe Craigis (Baruch Lumet), whose experiments mutated the hungry critters. Thorne makes a friend in the doctor’s daughter, Ann (Ingrid Goude), and an enemy in his assistant, Jerry Farrell (Curtis)—but they must all work together when the fur starts to fly! Special-effects veteran Ray Kellogg directed this film and its companion piece, The Giant Gila Monster, later sharing the directorial credit (with John Wayne) for The Green Berets. Approximately 69 minutes Black and White
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People trapped on an island off Texas are attacked by vicious shrews developed by bungling scientists. If they had substituted dinosaurs for the tiny rodents, this might have been "Jurassic Park."
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Sailing to a remote and deserted island, Captain Thorne Sherman (James Best) delivers supplies to a scientist Dr. Craigis (Baruch Lumet), who is anxious to have his daughter, Ann (Ingrid Goude) join the skipper on his return voyage. And for good reason: Dr. Craigis and his assistants have accidentally wreaked biological havoc by spawning mutant shrews that are starving for food-especially humans! Sherman must fight for survival while fending off these savage creatures. Surrounded by the bloodthirsty beasts, he concocts a desperate escape plan that will keep viewers' hearts pumping with excitement. Shot in Texas on an extremely low budget, The Killer Shrews is well acted and tensely written and has justifiably become a minor classic of its genre.
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