WHAT TO BINGE ON TV Stream On! ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man,’ blowing minds since 1957

By Peter Hummers

In 1957, people were increasingly nervous about the US/USSR arms race. In 1954 actor Mickey Rooney made The Atomic Kid , a comedy about nuclear testing; then, reflecting shifting public perception, director Jack Arnold ( Gilligan’s Island ) made a horror movie about a toxic cloud and its unknown effects, The Incredible Shrinking Man .

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN

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“And in that moment I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of Man’s own limited dimension. I had presumed upon Nature. That existence begins and ends is Man’s conception, not Nature’s.” (Scott Ca

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