The Magnetic Monster

Watch: The Magnetic Monster

2/18/19531h 16m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Terror swoops through the heart of a city in the dead of night! ~

Overview:

The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.

Director:

Curt Siodmak

Status:

Released

Language:

English

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Revenue:

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Key words:

magnetic field
radiation
pregnancy
black and white
stock footage
radiation sickness
hardware store
scientist hero
magnetism
energy absorption
office of scientific investigation

Cast

Richard Carlson

~ as ~

Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

King Donovan

~ as ~

Dr. Dan Forbes

Leo Britt

~ as ~

Dr. Benton

Jean Byron

~ as ~

Connie Stewart

Harry Ellerbe

~ as ~

Dr. Allard

Frank Gerstle

~ as ~

Col. Willis

John Vosper

~ as ~

Capt. Dyer

Byron Foulger

~ as ~

Mr. Simon

Leonard Mudie

~ as ~

Howard Denker

Kathleen Freeman

~ as ~

Nelly

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
5
Richard Carlson struggles to inject much life into this rather dry sci-fi adventure. He and his scientist colleague "Dan" (King Donovan) are called into investigate mysterious goings on in a small town where just about everything metallic appears to have become magnetised. Bizarre, eh? What's causing it? Well that might have something to do with poorly scientist "Denker" (Leonard Mudie) who is travelling on an aircraft with a briefcase containing an highly toxic, radioactive, element that absorbs energy from adjacent metallic objects allowing it to expand exponentially. It's soon down to our intrepid duo to come up with a way of destroying it before it becomes huge enough to destabilise the Earth's orbit. This has one big problem for me - it has no object or creature for me to focus on as the danger. The film consists of loads and loads of dialogue, a bit of romance from Carlson and his wife "Connie" (Jean Byron) but until the last ten minutes, nowhere near enough actual action to keep the momentum going for what seemed like an over-long seventy-five minutes of haring about and chatter.