Beware! The Blob
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| Directed by | Larry Hagman |
| Produced by | Anthony Harris |
| Screenplay by |
Anthony Harris Jack Woods |
| Story by |
Richard Clair Jack H. Harris |
| Starring |
Robert Walker, Jr. Carol Lynley Godfrey Cambridge Gwynne Gilford Richard Stahl Richard Webb Marlene Clark Gerrit Graham J. J. Johnston Danny Goldman |
| Music by | Mort Garson |
| Cinematography | Al Hamm |
| Edited by | Tony de Zarraga |
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Jack H. Harris Enterprises, Inc.
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| Distributed by |
Jack H. Harris Enterprises Inc. Umbrella Entertainment |
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Running time
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Beware! The Blob (alternately titled as Beware the Blob, Son of Blob, Son of the Blob or The Blob Returns) is a 1972 (copyrighted 1971) sequel to horror science-fiction film The Blob. The film was directed by Larry Hagman. The screenplay was penned by Anthony Harris and Jack Woods III, based on a story by Jack H. Harris and Richard Clair. The film originally earned a PG rating from the MPAA, though it is now unrated.
Leaving off fifteen years after the events of the first movie The Blob, an oil pipeline layer named Chester (Godfrey Cambridge) returns to his suburban Los Angeles home from the North Pole, bringing with him a small sample of a mysterious frozen substance uncovered by a bulldozer on a job site. Prior to taking the blob to a lab to be analyzed, he places the storage container with the substance in his freezer, but he and his wife (Marlene Clark) accidentally let it thaw, releasing "the Blob". It starts by eating a fly, then a kitten, Chester's wife, and then Chester himself (while, in an intentional anachronism by the film makers, he is watching a television broadcast of the film The Blob).
Lisa (Gwynne Gilford), a friend, walks in to see Chester being consumed by the Blob. She escapes, but cannot get anyone to believe her, not even her boyfriend Bobby (Robert Walker, Jr.). Meanwhile, the rapidly growing creature quietly preys upon the town. Some of its victims include a police officer and two hippies (Cindy Williams and Randy Stonehill) in a storm drain, a barber (Shelley Berman) and his client, transients (played by director Hagman, Burgess Meredith and Del Close), a Scoutmaster (Dick Van Patten), a farm full of chickens and horses, people in a gas station, and a various townspeople who turn up "missing."
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