Tarantula (1955)
In the mid 1950s, the young Clint Eastwood arrived in Hollywood, where he signed a contract with Universal (then known as Universal-International). What followed was a series of bit parts: he played a scientist in Revenge of the Creature (the sequel to The Creature from the Black Lagoon), and again in Never Say Goodbye; and had the promising-sounding role of “First Saxon” in Lady Godiva of Coventry.
Also in 1955, he took to the skies in a brief appearance as a fighter pilot leading a squadron into battle with a giant spider in Tarantula, a take on the giant-creature-on-the-rampage genre that maybe suffers in comparison to the previous year’s Them!, but does have its fans, and some nice FX.
October 26th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
[...] The set was built in 1948 for An Act of Murder, and by the time this Twilight Zone episode had been filmed, it had already been used for the Ma & Pa Kettle films, as well as B-movies It Came from Outer Space and Tarantula (compare the picture above with the second photo in our post about Tarantula). [...]