The Magnetic Monster
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| Directed by |
Curt Siodmak Herbert L. Strock (uncredited) |
| Produced by |
Ivan Tors George Van Marter |
| Written by | Curt Siodmak Ivan Tors |
| Starring |
Richard Carlson King Donovan |
| Narrated by | Richard Carlson |
| Music by | Blaine Sanford |
| Cinematography | Charles Van Enger |
| Edited by | Herbert L. Strock |
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Ivan Tors Films
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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76 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $105,000 (estimated) |
The Magnetic Monster is a 1953 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Ivan Tors and George Van Marter, directed by Curt Siodmak and (uncredited) Herbert L. Strock, that stars Richard Carlson, King Donovan, and Jean Byron. The film was released by United Artists.
Magnetic Monster is the first episode in Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" (OSI) trilogy, followed by Riders to the Stars (1954) and Gog (1954).
The Magnetic Monster marked Carlson's initial foray into science fiction and horror films; he would follow it with better known titles that would forever associate him with those genres: It Came from Outer Space (1953), The Maze (1953), Riders to the Stars (1954), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), and such TV series as Thriller and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
A pair of agents from the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI), Dr. Jeffrey Stewart (Richard Carlson) and Dr. Dan Forbes (King Donovan), are sent to investigate a local appliance store. All of the store's clocks have stopped at the same time, while metal items in the store have become magnetized. A source for this is traced to an office located directly above the store, where various scientific equipment is found, along with a dead body. There are also signs of radioactivity, but the exact cause of the store's anomalies is clearly no longer in the room or even in the immediate area.
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