The Blob
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| Directed by | Irvin Yeaworth |
| Produced by | Jack H. Harris |
| Written by |
Kay Linaker Theodore Simonson |
| Story by | Irving H. Millgate |
| Starring |
Steve McQueen Aneta Corsaut Earl Rowe Olin Howland |
| Music by |
Ralph Carmichael Burt Bacharach |
| Cinematography | Thomas E. Spalding |
| Edited by | Alfred Hillmann |
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Fairview Productions
Tonylyn Productions Valley Forge Films |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $110,000 |
| Box office | $4 million |
The Blob (also known as The Molten Meteor) is a 1958 American independent science-fiction horror film directed by Irvin Yeaworth. In the style of American International Pictures, Paramount Pictures released the film as a double feature with I Married a Monster from Outer Space.
The film stars a 28-year-old Steve McQueen in his debut leading role as a teenager, and Aneta Corsaut, as his co-star. The plot depicts a growing corrosive alien amoeba that crashes from outer space in a meteorite and engulfs and dissolves citizens in the small community of Downingtown, Pennsylvania. The origin of The Blob is never identified, and the film ends with a question mark.
During one long night in a small rural Pennsylvania town in July 1957, teenager Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and his girlfriend, Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut), are kissing on a lovers' lane when they see a meteor crash beyond the next hill. Steve decides to look for it. An old man (Olin Howland) living nearby finds it first. When he pokes the meteorite with a stick, it breaks open, and the small jelly-like blob inside attaches itself to his hand. In pain and unable to scrape or shake it loose, the old man runs onto the road, where he is nearly struck by Steve's car. Steve and Jane take him to Doctor Hallen (Stephen Chase).
Doctor Hallen is about to leave for a medical conference, but anesthetizes the man and sends Steve and Jane back to the impact site to gather information. Hallen decides he must amputate the man's arm since it is being consumed by the growing Blob. Before he can, however, the Blob completely consumes the old man, then Hallen's nurse, and finally the doctor himself, all the while increasing in size.
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