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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957).>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SPOILERS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>> Exemplary Sci-Fi involving an everyman who due to really just bad luck begins to shrink and how He deals with the changes. Grant Williams is pretty good as Scott Carey, an Everyman who doesn't deserve what happens to him. Randy Stuart as his loving albeit suffering wife also deserves notice. Very good special effects, particularly when Scott has an encounter with the Family cat...when He's about three inches tall. I live on 5 acres and the occasional rodent slips in (less than 10 this year; in 2018 must have been close to 50, was changing the traps constantly) and one of my late cats was very efficient at catching them-many a mangled mouse corpse and sort of frightening watching her do her thing and wondering what might happen if I was in the state.
Richard Matheson wrote the screenplay from his novel, but I find the book better as the film flows from start to finish, while the novel bounces around. The first chapter sets the story up with the mist and the Bang! We're in the Basement and a very diminutive Scott is being pursued by a Spider which is Bear sized to him. There are some more "Adult" themes throughout the book that really couldn't have made it into the film during the 50's.
Despite whatever changes may have occurred, TISM is still one of the 50's Sci-Fi greats and well worth a watch. ****
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