Tarantula! (1955)

Giant spider strikes! Crawling terror 100 feet high!

Tarantula! is a 1955 American black-and-white science fiction giant monster film from Universal-International, produced by William Alland, directed by Jack Arnold, that stars John Agar, Mara Corday, and Leo G. Carroll. The screenplay by Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley was based on a story by Arnold, which was in turn inspired by Fresco’s teleplay for the 1955 Science Fiction Theatre episode, “No Food for Thought”, also directed by Arnold.

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