The Blob One Sheet

Cast and credits: THE BLOB (1958) Produced by Russell Doughten and Jack H. Harris; Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.; Story by Irving H. Millgate; Screenplay by Kate Phillips and Theodore Simonson; Original music by Burt Bacharach and Mack David (uncredited for the title song) and Ralph Carmichael; Cinematography by Thomas Spalding; Makeup artist: Vin Kehoe; Special Effects by Bart Sloane. Released in October, 1958.

The cast: Steven McQueen (Steve Andrews); Aneta Corsaut (Jane Martin); Earl Rowe (Lieutenant Dave); Olin Howlin (Old Man); Stephen Chase (Dr. T. Hallen); John Benson (Sergeant Jim Bert); George Karas (Officer Ritchie); Lee Payton (Kate, the nurse); Elbert Smith (Henry Martin); Vince Barbi (George, the Cafe Owner); Audrey Metcalf (Elizabeth Martin); Jasper Deeter (Civil Defense Volunteer); Elinor Hammer (Mrs. Porter); Julie Cousins (Sally, the waitress); Keith Almoney (Danny Martin); Robert Fields (Tony Gressette); James Bonnet ('Mooch' Miller); Anthony Franke (Al); Pamela Curran (Smooching Teenager); Hugh Graham, Ralph Roseman, Charlie Overdorff, David Metcalf, Josh Randolph, George Gerbereck, Tom Ogden, Eugene Sabel, Molly Ann Bourne, Diane Tabben (Teenagers).

The Plot:
Teenagers Steve and Jane, kissing at a "lover's lane" outside their town, see what looks like a shooting star fall to earth. They hop into Steve's car and make for the spot where they think it landed. They come upon an old man writhing in pain, his hand covered with a gelatinous substance. They rush him to town to the doctor who is perplexed, then alarmed as he sees the substance spread before his eyes. The nurse, summoned to assist him, is startled to find the old man gone. Suddenly, she and the doctor confront the Blob. The doctor goes for his gun, fires at it without success and is horrified to see his nurse consummed by the Blob, which grows larger by the minute. Meanwhile Steve and Jane and their teenage friends have returned to the spot where the old man was found and discover the outer shell, a hot rock that had contained the Blob.
When the young couple returns to report to the doctor, Steve sees him through his office window writhing in the grip of something, then disappearing. The police to whom Steve and Jane rush with their fears, turn a deaf ear. They have had too much trouble with the teen-agers' practical jokes and consider this story more of the same. But it isn't long before they must take the kids seriously.
The Blob traps Steve and Jane in the supermarket but recedes from them when they hide in the walk-in freezer. Steve and Jane gather their friends and set off the town's fire and air-raid alarms. The townspeople and police still refuse to believe Steve. Meanwhile, The Blob enters the Colonial Theater and engulfs and devours the projectionist before oozing into the auditorium, consuming a number of the audience. Steve is finally vindicated when screaming people leave the theater in a panic. The police try everything to stop it but to no avail.
Steve and Jane and her kid brother become trapped in the diner, along with the manager and a waitress. The Blob, now enormous and blood red from the people it has consumed, has engulfed the building. Dave has a connection made from his police radio to the diner's telephone, telling those in the diner to get into the cellar before they bring down a live power line onto The Blob. When the live wire lands, it discharges a massive electrical current into The Blob, but it is unaffected and the diner is set ablaze. When the diner manager uses a carbon dioxide extinguisher on the fire, Steve notices that this causes the Blob to recoil. Steve remembers that it also retreated from the freezer. Shouting in hopes of being picked up on the open phone line, Steve tells Dave about the Blob's vulnerability to cold. Jane's father leads Steve's friends to the high school to retrieve the twenty fire extinguishers there. Returning, the brigade of fire extinguisher-armed students and police first drive The Blob away from the diner, then freeze it, saving Steve, Jane, and the others. Dave requests authorities send an Air Force heavy-lift cargo aircraft to transport the Blob to the Arctic, where it is later parachuted to the ice and snow pack. Dave says that while The Blob is not dead, at least it has been stopped. The End...?

THE BLOB Posters from other countries ; Also THE BLOB press book

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