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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0505058241387
Feature: THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
Label: Universal
Manufacturer: Universal
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal
Region Code: 2.4
Running Time: 78 minutes
Sales Rank: 32583
Studio: Universal
Features:- THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
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Product Description:
Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2&4 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Russian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Dutch ( Subtitles ),English ( Subtitles ),French ( Subtitles ),German ( Subtitles ),Italian ( Subtitles ),Spanish ( Subtitles ),ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu,SYNOPSIS: The screen's great existential science fiction film, The Incredible Shrinking Man stars Grant Williams in the title role. While catching some rays on his brother's yacht, Williams is enveloped by a mysterious dark cloud. Soon after, he discovers that he's getting thinner-and smaller. Despite the assuring attitude of his family doctor (the inevitable William Schallert), Williams is losing an inch's worth of height with each passing day. It is finally determined that he has developed an 'anti-cancer,' a byproduct of a new strain of insecticide. By the time he's reached the size of a small boy, Williams has become world-famous. But the phenomenon has adversely affected his personality, turning him into a tyrant, lashing out at the world in general and his faithful wife in particular. An anti-toxin briefly halts the shrinking process, whereupon Williams joins a midget troupe, where he is briefly 'accepted' for what he has become. But before long he's shrinking again, becoming so tiny that he is forced to live in a dollhouse. When Williams is attacked and by his pet cat, his wife assumes that he's been killed: in fact, Williams, by now so minuscule that even a garden-variety spider poses a deadly threat to him, is hiding in his cellar. By film's end, Williams is no larger than an atom. Uncertain of what is in store for him, he steps out into the mists, summing up his new-found philo
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Available as part of the "Classic Sci_Fi Ultimate Collection" in the U.S. from Best Buy
For those that have multi-region players, this might be a fine addition to their classic science fiction collection. It has, however, been released in the United States as part of a multi-disc set.
Universal has released "The Incredible Shrinking Man" as part of a package with four other vintage Sci-Fi/Horror 50's films as "The Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection". It's available only from Best Buy through October. I'm not sure if Universal will be releasing the titles individually (I ... Read More
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