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655:. In that light, he says, "the monster on the campus is the demonized black male student, threatening to contaminate the purity of white women and cause the reversal of white evolutionary potential. The Caveman is imaged as a racist caricature of the African American: bestial, violent and corrosive to the tenets of white society". However, Gonder goes on to point out that the "creature and the professor are one and the same: several times, Blake comments on how the beast is 'within' him". And at the end of the film Blake solves his problem: he "does not turn himself in but instead organizes his own lynch mob by purposefully (for the first time) transforming himself into the Caveman, thus forcing the police officers to shoot him". 628:
willingly submits to conformity imposed on him from the outside - cannot win. His personal goal of knowledge for the sake of knowledge is not that of the university, which seems more interested in the publicity that owning a rare coelacanth will bring. "But, if the film condemns the other-directed society as stifling scientific knowledge, it equally condemns Blake's rampant inner-directed man. It reveals, in fact, that the individual within is a beast".
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by trivial locations and drab sets. The film has no arresting images. The best can come up with is a swift glance the ape-man gives a mirror before smashing it and one shot of a woman dangling by her hair from a tree". In summary, he calls the film "routine, unimaginative and foolish ... Jack Arnold's worst science fiction film".
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Lt. Stevens, Detective Sgt. Powell and Dr. Howard arrive at the cabin. Blake tells them that he not only knows who the murderer is, but where to find him. Out in the woods, he explains to Howard what his experiment proved and injects himself with coelacanth plasma. Again transformed into the caveman,
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make the most of the ape-man's path of destruction through the campus but the script lacks any sparkle". Senn calls the film "visually flat, with the 'action' taking place in labs, offices and cabins, and with exteriors consisting of one back-lot hillside". And Warren says that the film is "hampered
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that lands on the coelacanth. The dragonfly later returns, now two feet in length. Blake and Jimmy try to catch the giant insect with a net when it lands on the coelacanth again. Blake stabs the dragonfly. While examining its body, he does not notice its blood has dripped into his pipe. Lighting up
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adopts the typical sf/horror plot of the mad scientist versus the blind authorities", the film "frames the issue specifically within the world of the organization man". According to Hendershot, a man such as Blake - driven from within toward individualism and not at all a good organization man who
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He decides to take some days off at Dr. Howard's remote cabin. Blake plans to learn whether he is the beast. He rigs the cabin with cameras on trip wires and injects himself with coelacanth plasma. His caveman self wrecks the room, trips the camera's wires, and is photographed. He grabs an axe and
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A person or persons unknown attacks Molly at Blake's home. Madeline Howard, Blake's fiancée and daughter of Dr. Gilbert Howard, president of the university, arrives and finds the home in shambles and Blake moaning on the ground. Madeline calls the police after seeing the corpse of Molly hanging by
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Inside the lab, Blake scratches himself on the teeth of the partially-thawed coelacanth, accidentally sticking his bloody hand into the water-filled container which held the fish. Molly Riordan, the assistant to Dr. Cole Oliver, is with Blake and offers him a ride home. Blake says he does not feel
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as an exploration of a "wide variety of issues related to the emergence of teen culture in Fifties America". Specifically, her focus is on juvenile deliquency, which she says "provoked feelings of intense horror" in adults at the time. The Dunsfield Police, for example, "suspect the teenagers on
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on 17 December 1958, followed by Finland on 1 May 1959, West Germany on 22 January 1960, France on 27 January 1960, and Mexico on 3 March 1960. The film was also released in the UK, Belgium, Greece, Italy, the Soviet Union, Argentina, and Brazil. In the UK, it was given an "X" certificate by the
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and smoking, he immediately feels ill. As the dragonfly shrinks back to its standard size, a large, hairy hand reaches out and squashes the insect. Then Blake's lab is trashed, and Sgt. Daniels is killed. The police find huge footprints near his body and conclude they are from the same source.
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has attracted a fair amount of academic interest. Prof. Cyndy Hendershot in 2001 wrote that the film examines "issues of conformity and individuality" through a "metaphor of monstrous transformation". Hendershot says that while Blake the professor represents conformity, his caveman self is a
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and other outings". Bryan Senn notes that keeping the monster off-camera until near the end of the film is a good idea, as it adds a "bit of build-up and mystery", but doing so "only makes the rubbery mask and hirsute padded shoulders (making him look like a simian linebacker) that much more
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While driving to the cabin, Madeline runs off the road and crashes when the caveman appears in her headlights. A local forest ranger arrives and calls the Dunsfield police for help. The caveman carries the unconscious Madeline into the forest, with the ranger in pursuit.
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representation of individuality. But he cannot be conformist and individualistic at the same time. His employer, Dunsfield University, "conspires to stamp out individuality that does not follow the direction of the organization as a whole". That is, "while
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Waking up, Madeline struggles with the beast. The ranger shoots the caveman when she breaks free. The caveman then kills the ranger with his axe and collapses. Blake, once again himself, returns to the cabin and develops a photo, showing it to Madeline.
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Detective Lt. Mike Stevens and Detective Sgt. Eddie Daniels find a "deformed" handprint on a window and Blake's tie clasp in Molly's dead hand. They take Blake downtown when he admits that he cannot remember anything after getting into Molly's car.
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campus of being guilty" of the murders of Molly and Daniels, yet the "true criminal is located at the heart of adult authority on campus". However, unlike many films in which young people are the villains,
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Many of the more recent reviews have centered on the monster/caveman/ape-man makeup. Warren writes, "The mask is unconvincing, with tiny shell-like teeth and a built-in scowl; it resembles similar
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Concluding that someone holding a grudge is trying to implicate Blake in Molly's murder, Stevens releases him. He assigns Daniels as Blake's bodyguard and tells Blake that Molly's
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inverts things, so that "only the students emerge as having any clear moral sense about the horrors that are occurring on campus". In other words, "the kids in
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magazine (No.26, 1975), "I didn't really hate it, but I didn't think it was up to the standards of the other films that I have done".
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The film's storyline tells of a university science professor who accidentally comes into contact with the irradiated blood of a
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magazine in its issue of 19 January 1959 showed positive reviews from most of the publications listed in its "Review Digest".
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he chases Howard, forcing the two detectives to shoot him. As the beast lies dying, he slowly transforms back into Blake.
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and that "unless we learn to control the instincts we've inherited from our ape-like ancestors, the race is doomed."
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has been referenced in a number of other films and television programs. Among other examples, it was shown on
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Production took place between April and May 1958. The on-campus scenes of Dunsfield University were filmed at
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are fine; it's the adults that have to be watched, as they may transform into monsters at any moment".
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marked the first film for which he received sole credit as producer. This was the film debut of
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when it first came out because it was the "bottom half of a double-bill with the more colorful
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only played Prof. Donald Blake. Once the makeup transformation scenes were over, stuntman
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But reviews have noted more than just makeup. Phil Hardy writes that "cinematographer
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magazine (Vol.4 No.2, 1975) that the film was shot in 12 days, and that Arnold told
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was released just a few years after the 1954 US Supreme Court decision in
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Dr. Donald Blake, a science professor at Dunsfield University, receives a
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in 1958 for its "artistic merit and moral suitability". This resulted in
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Prof. Patrick Gonder looks at the film in racial terms. He writes that
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had received executive producer credit on some films of the 1940s,
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Blake learns that the coelacanth has blood plasma preserved by
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had its U.S. VHS release in 1994. Universal Pictures released
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Richard H. Cutting as Forest Ranger Tom Edwards (uncredited)
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had a wide international release. Its U.S. premiere was in
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in 1981 and 2013; scenes from it were used in the films
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in Eagle Rock, a suburb of Los Angeles, California.
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Index


Reynold Brown
Jack Arnold
David Duncan
Arthur Franz
Joanna Cook Moore
Nancy Walters
Troy Donahue
Whit Bissell
Russell Metty
Ted J. Kent
Universal-International
black-and-white
science fiction
horror film
Universal-International
Jack Arnold
David Duncan
Arthur Franz
Joanna Cook Moore
Nancy Walters
Troy Donahue
Whit Bissell
double feature
Blood of the Vampire
coelacanth
caveman
coelacanth
evolve
devolve

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