I just watched this movie on TCM. I don't recall ever having watched it before.
Poor Scott couldn't catch a break, could he. I really thought he'd be rescued in the end, reunited with his wife and restored to his normal self. I guess I've seen the remake with Lily Tomlin too many times (one of my favorites as a child).
Poor little hot man. :(
angeldollie... you think scott carey was hot? Do you like him cause hes tiny or because hes cute? I always wonder if many women would find the idea of a shrunken man as something appealing or too odd.
Do you have thoughts on this angeldollie? I love this topic!
Oh yeah he's hot. From the first scene of him and his wife on the boat. I noticed he's not too muscular, though. I don't think there was as much emphasis on actors' bodies back then as there is today. But, yes, he's got the blonde hair, gorgeous face. Incredibly good looking. I didn't know who he was before today.
I thought it was a good movie. I expected the effects to be worse than they were.
I like the movie but I didn't like the ending. It ended so unhappily. He has to remain a shrunken man. His wife thinks he is dead and he is going to have to roam the land alone and living a primitive lifestyle. The ending was intelligent and better than some of the other ridiculously abrupt endings that were seen in Universal horror movies of the 40's. I guess I just felt so, so sad for Scott Carey and his dilemna. I know it's just a movie but boy that ending was a bummer!
shareBut not the hollywoodized ending.
One more true to what would have happened if a man shrunk for real.
Scott should have had to live out his life as a doll sized man, kept in a dollhouse and taken care of by a giant wife.
What do you think would have happened if scott was kept by louise? ( she sure did a lousy job protecting her tiny husband from the cat! Youd think she never heard of a purse to safe keep scott in!!!)
I always wished there had been a sequel where louise finds scott in the basement and takes him away with her to live with her mother and 2 sisters! Now that would have been quite a story for scott.
We get it, you have a fetish for small people.
shareI like Dreuxcut's idea too!
Why do you say s/he has a fetish for small people just b/c s'he gives a story idea. You seem pretty IGNORANT!!!! And also what does it matter if s/he does, sometimes that's how the BEST stories come about?
I like the Most people see things that are and ask "why?", I dream things that never were and ask, "why not?"
If that sequek was made, I think we would stop saying :Poor Scott" and start saying "Why couldn't that be me???? WAHHHH!"
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Originally, the Universal Studio Execs wanted the standard happy ending where (by some miracle of Pseudo Science plus Faith), Scott grows back to his normal size, and he and his wife live happily ever after. They undoubtably became thilthy rich by selling the story and appearing with Edward R. Murrow. Perhaps they also sold the rights to that village in Los Angeles that's famous for producing things called movies.
When I first saw this, I was even hoping for a non-bummer ending because it disturbed me that much. I never thought that I, of all horror fans, would ever be saying anything that unholy, but I had to get it off my chest.
Anyways, Jack Arnold's response was "Over my dead body", and the rest is grim history. He obviously had enough clout at that time that he could get away with telling the suits to (Fill in blank) OFF!
Supposedly, Richard Matheson wrote the original story when he was very depressed with his career, feeling like the insignificant little man.
Hollywood became notorious in creating incredibly shrinking careers to many of its employees.
If "That's Life", then I'd dread to see what death is like.
Yes, he was quite nice looking. I think that the preferred body type at the time was different, but for the time, he was in great shape.
shareI understand the OP's sentiment but I think the film's main point was as Scott shrunk as a man, in the end, he grew spiritually and mentally as a person. One might say it was an exchange of physical height for emotional depth.
Like all great films, this one makes you think.
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Absolutely! It was marvelous writing, super special effects for it's time and Jack Arnold did a terrific job directing....
shareI was disappointed at the ending at first, but it was so beautifully done, by the way he became at peace with what happened and had no more hunger pains, I get the impression that he died, but not before realizing that in spite of his size, he was still just as important to God as anyone else, no one is a zero to God.
shareThe ending is sad but always stood out to me as very much ahead of it's time. "Scott" had finally realized that what he had valued before was really very unimportant. Hopefully we all come to that place before we die.
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I was expecting him to be rescued. I couldn't decide if the strange ending was bleak or hopeful.
shareOne of my favorite endings of any movie - because of its bleak but eerily uplifting, philosophical ending. Nobody could get a way with making a movie today that ended like that. The last lines in the movie are brilliant, and must have been a real novelty for movie-goers lucky enough to see it when it was released.
The irony at the end is delicious and painful at the same time - just when he gains the ultimate knowledge of the meaning of everything and is at peace with his situation, he disappears into oblivion. However, we can all only hope to be at such peace at the end of our own lives.
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i loved the bittersweet ending
so many movies, so little time