@ricci The Great Race and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World come to mind.

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lol bro wiped his brow with the sleeve of the hazmat suit while doffing #monsterdon

Yes let's remove the original source of the contamination and set everything *else* on fire

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"Hey! I just set that on fire, you jerk!"

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"All through the baggage cart?"

"All through. Not a creature was stirring. Not even a mouse."

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Decontamination via flamethrower.

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thank you @cherizilla this was a great one!

The roof! The roof! The roof is NOT on fire!

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This really is a good early contagion story #Monsterdon

They're gonna burn the blancmange!

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If he's not out in 3 minutes we'll send someone in after him. And 3 minutes later, someone after him. And after another 3 minutes, someone else. And then, 3 minutes later... #monsterdon

BURN THE TRAIN TO THE GROUND!

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I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.

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For a movie with Space in the title this has very little to do with space other than that being the origin of the terrible blood rust. I'm OK with that, the scientific thriller/procedural is making me drowsy. If only Frees had served, at least to narrate. I could definitely drift off to that voice. #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7

Gape! At the thrilling CIGARETTE LIGHTING SCENE!

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Decent of them to turn away the camera as he stripped himself naked suiting up #monsterdon

Why didn't they stop the train instead of flying on a jet to try and beat it?
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I had blood rust in my baggage car once... #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7

too many men in hats, they all look the same

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So... she's going for a walk...

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#monsterdon Seriously though the entire orchestra is about to keel over and die from all drama-hits they're doing like a giant squid is going to bust through the street or something and it's just a person shuffling out of Union Station. I urge the people NOT watching this to load it up sometime and just skip to 28 minutes in it's unbelievable.

#monsterdon Luckily there aren't too many 26 year old blue-eyed blonds in LA.

She'll be easily spotted.

Hard to tell if someone is wearing brown in a black and white film! Good luck!

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I love that they apparently actually filmed this in Union Station. Love that building. #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7

I'm glad these movies document for posterity: Payphones, collect calls, and phone numbers that were a mnemonic and then digits instead of entirely digits. #monsterdon

@gnomon

This film was described as a "lost" film until relatively recently. Few had seen it since its original release.

To me, this watch is a big deal.

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Watch out, it's the t1000 #monsterdon

Coffee is served.

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Trans Orient Airlines, please listen carefully our menu options have changed...

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hm. I think they reused the payphone set.

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#monsterdon A collect call. HAHAHAHA. “ET Phone Home... That will be six million dollars for the first 30 seconds…”

This would be a whole different vibe is Laura realized they have no idea who they're looking for

if she knew it were a mystery

like if the newspaper had said "Mystery Woman Sought"

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Did this start out as a radio play? Or was the writer just used to working in radio? Even the music feels overly telegraphed.
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I don't wanna say the music is completely incongruous with what's on screen, but … I keep waiting for a car to fly off a cliff and explode.

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yes it's gorgeous LA union train Station #monsterdon

@Bluedepth

And who talked back to and actually struck a man!

And who is a certified slut for having sex with TWO men in her life!

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she could go hide out in Natakomi Tower.

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thrilling walking sequence

well wait i mean

i guess it is in LA so

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"Why can't you be more human?"

Gosh who the hell would want to be *that*

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CHEESE IT IT"S THE FUZZ!

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How many of you children have ever seen a dial phone? *whistles innocently*

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“One human contact could spread this thing across the USA”

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They don't news right away in Hawaii apparently
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@gnomon serves him right though #monsterdon

@klu9 suitcase wheels are liberation! #monsterdon

#monsterdon Ohhh Wally, do you mean it? I could die? PLEASE! Oh! Is decontamination a kind of game? Like playing “hide the nightstick" maybe? Could we?

Gotta warm up your jet so it doesn’t stall. Trust me, I went to Top Gun.

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@Lazarou Dragnet from space!

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In the 1950s all your actions were described by voiceover #monsterdon

@Lazarou

Massive socioeconomic inequality meant there were always porters desperate for cash

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Jet bomber... is that an F-101?

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Awwww yeah more narration.

The classic cinema mantra "tell, don't show."

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"And requested a jet bomber to make a few bombing runs on the Red & White cab company premises."

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Sorry, cabbie, but we need you to strip and scrub down. #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7

time to firebomb the train station

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People not familiar with classic tape reels may have missed the fact the guy in the window took the side of the reel that would have been empty of recorded voice.

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If people drink every time she says, "Why can't you be more human", you would be drunk right now.
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lmao, you know that street in Las Cruces? Las Cruces Road? It's in Las Cruces! The place we are! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon "pommer never had anything to do with women" yeah we figured that out when he told ratigan he didn't wanna hook up

We began to question the wisdom of incinerating all the evidence.

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I suppose it is uncharacteristically smart of them to set fire to the thing and try to contain it rather than studying it or talking to it or whatever

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why not?

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To figure out what to do, we summoned more ranking army dudes to listen to the monologue tape, which names the fungus "Blood Rust" and also includes a clip of Mustache Scientist arguing with Laura. My Pandora's box prediction was wrong - and instead Phone Man and the Army Men have to search for Laura because she might be contaminated with the death spores.

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Moe is infected, quick quarantine him!
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Blood Rust was the name of my garage band in high school.

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This ends with one person carrying this thing to the world

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Some of this narration would be fun to sample #monsterdon

This also feels like an inspiration for the parodic elements of the 1960 Little Shop of Horrors.

The transition to the military/science complex's response also fulfills my first impression this might be a prototype or step on the way to The Andromeda Strain. #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7

They submerged them in phenol?

…

Well, that'd prolly kill the fungus. Take 10 years or more off their lives too.

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Phenol solution?

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I feel like there's a lot of plot that was left on the cutting room floor?

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#monsterdon total immersion in phenol

Scrubbing in phenol is at least vaguely accurate? Chemists use to wash their hands in benzene anyway so I'm extrapolating a bit.

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Chekov's unwitting contact

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"...panic is the danger."
"Oh, I thought it was the flesh eating space fungus."

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Love the phone calls of yesteryore heard by only one character on set, immediately acted on by everyone in the scene.

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"Well, no _human_ contact, but there _was_ his mistress."

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So it's going to be the Woman's fault this spreads. Is that what we're doing this time? #monsterdon

Good thing they carry their "burn down" kit in the jeep. Always ready, it's what I say.
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I'm actually surprised that the people are doing kind of the right thing right off, this is surprisingly rare for #Monsterdon fare

I know I am always prepared to burn down my co-workers house at the merest suggestion by them.

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Good thing spores don’t, idk, float on the wind or anything.

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just set fire to the place and drive away

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Then they burned down the building, effectively containing the pathogen, listened to the tape and decided never to replicate his experiments. The end, thanks for watching everyone #monsterdon

Mmmm, fungi fritti!

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1950s biolab security seems a bit primitive
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Yeah, that tape is definitely not at all contaminated

Also, what the heck? Why are these two yahoos the only ones making decisions around here? And who’s going to tell the fire department?

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Remember kids, don't mess with ganglions from space.
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oh boy, casual arson
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Hey, they brought gas! How thoughtful.

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Perhaps he should have considered following any safety protocols at all.

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SPORES IN YOUR LUNGS

SPORES IN YOUR LUNGS

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@bunnyhero no rust! C! #monsterdon

Turns out growing space fungus at home has drawbacks!

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@Terencio

... with a Buick

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They stole the music from another set of movies and just placed it in here randomly.

What I say to every Uber driver when I hand them a twenty

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cannot get how this exobiology lab is unlike any other......it's just his house, isn't it?

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