# Tarantola (1955)

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**Original title**: *Tarantula*
**Runtime**: 80 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Horror
**Directed by**: Jack Arnold
**Written by**: Robert M. Fresco, Martin Berkeley
**Starring**: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott, Hank Patterson

> *More terrifying than any horror known to man comes a creeping crawling monster whose towering fury no one can escape!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Desert town summer dusk a lone car drives down main street. 
A dead lab assistant sparks a doctor's investigation. 
Jack Arnold directs a classic sci-fi horror tale.

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