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The Magnetic Monster

The Magnetic Monster

  • Status: Released
  • 18-02-1953
  • Runtime: 76 min
  • Score: 5.6
  • Vote count: 35

The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.

Richard Carlson

Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

King Donovan

Dr. Dan Forbes

Leo Britt

Dr. Benton

Jean Byron

Connie Stewart

Harry Ellerbe

Dr. Allard

Frank Gerstle

Col. Willis

John Vosper

Capt. Dyer

Byron Foulger

Mr. Simon

Leonard Mudie

Howard Denker

Kathleen Freeman

Nelly

William Benedict

Albert

John Zaremba

Chief Watson

Douglas Evans

Pilot

Strother Martin

Co-Pilot

Michael Fox

Dr. Serny

Watson Downs

Mayor

Lee Phelps

City Engineer

Roy Engel

Gen. Behan

John Dodsworth

Dr. Carthwright

Charles Williams

Cabbie

Michael Granger

Kenneth Smith

Jarma Lewis

Stewardess

Elizabeth Root

Joy

Juney Ellis

Spinster

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Richard Carlson struggles to inject much life into this rather dry sci-fi adventure. He and his scientist colleague "Dan" (King Donovan) are called into investigate mysterious goings on in a small town where just about everything metallic appears to have become magnetised. Bizarre, eh? What's causing it? Well that might have something to do with poorly scientist "Denker" (Leonard Mudie) who is travelling on an aircraft with a briefcase containing an highly toxic, radioactive, element that absorbs energy from adjacent metallic objects allowing it to expand exponentially. It's soon down to our intrepid duo to come up with a way of destroying it before it becomes huge enough to destabilise the Earth's orbit. This has one big problem for me - it has no object or creature for me to focus on as the danger. The film consists of loads and loads of dialogue, a bit of romance from Carlson and his wife "Connie" (Jean Byron) but until the last ten minutes, nowhere near enough actual action to keep the momentum going for what seemed like an over-long seventy-five minutes of haring about and chatter.