John Agar
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A scientist creates a radioactive nutrient that causes a tarantula to grow to giant size and wreak havoc in Arizona. The film stars John Agar, Mara Corday, and Leo G. Carroll, and features a giant spider attack and a napalm finale.
Tarantula: Directed by Jack Arnold. With John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva. A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
- (11K)
- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Jack Arnold
- 1956-02-20
Aug 19, 2022 · Tarantula 1955 colorized (John Agar) Strange deaths in the Arizona desert intrigue a local doctor (John Agar), who gets help from the new assistant (Mara Corday) to a professor (Leo G. Carroll) experimenting with giving growth hormones to animals to increase the world's food supply. John Agar as Dr. Matt Hastings.
- 80 min
- 13.3K
- George Fergus
A scientist's experiments to cure hunger create a giant tarantula that terrorizes a small town. Watch the movie clip, see the cast and crew, and read the synopsis and trivia on Turner Classic Movies.
- Jack Arnold, Frank Shaw
- 1 min
- John Agar
A giant spider terrorizes a small desert town in this classic B-movie. Watch the trailer, read the plot summary, and see the cast and crew of Tarantula (1955) on The Movie Database.
Desert scientists (John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll) try to stop a fortified spider the size of a building.
- (15)
- Sci-Fi
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When a mysteriously deformed man, Eric Jacobs (Eddie Parker in an uncredited role), is found dead in the desert, Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar), a family doctor in the tiny neighboring town of Desert Rock, is called in to examine the body.
