Tarantula (1955 film)
Tarantula is a 1955 science fiction horror film released by Universal-International Pictures and directed by Jack Arnold. This film is best known today for featuring one of the early film roles of Clint Eastwood (who appears near the end of the film in an uncredited cameo, with his face partially hidden by an oxygen mask, as the leader of a United States Air Force jet squadron which confronts the film's title monster, a gigantic tarantula, in the film's climactic sequence).
| Tarantula | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jack Arnold |
| Produced by | William Alland |
| Written by | Jack Arnold Robert M. Fresco |
| Starring | John Agar Mara Corday Leo G. Carroll Clint Eastwood |
| Music by | Henry Mancini Herman Stein |
| Cinematography | George Robinson |
| Editing by | William Morgan |
| Production company | Universal-International Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal-International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 23, 1955 |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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