Movie
The Monolith Monsters
Overview
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
Details
- Release date
- 1957-12-06
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal International Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Grant Williams as Dave Miller
- Lola Albright as Cathy Barrett
- Les Tremayne as Martin Cochrane
- Trevor Bardette as Prof. Arthur Flanders
- William Flaherty as Police Chief Dan Corey
- Harry Jackson as Dr. Steve Hendricks
- Richard H. Cutting as Dr. E.J. Reynolds
- Linda Scheley as Ginny Simpson
- Dean Cromer as Highway Patrolman
- Steve Darrell as Joe Higgins
- Paul Petersen as Bobby
- William Schallert as Weatherman
Crew
- John Sherwood - Director
- Norman Jolley - Screenplay
- Robert M. Fresco - Screenplay
- Robert M. Fresco - Story
- Jack Arnold - Story
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