Grant Williams
Pub. Date
1957.
Description
When Scott Carey encounters a mysterious radioactive mist on a boating trip, he soon finds his life taking on a bizarre and frightening twist. His physical size begins to diminish as he shrinks to a mere two inches. Suddenly, ordinary household situations loom over him with lethal intensity, a playful cat becomes a demon, and a spider is a gargantuan monster.
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity's place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller… and smaller… and smaller until he's left...
3) PT 109
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Retelling of John F. Kennedy's wartime exploits as skipper of a battle-scarred PT boat. The assignment: harass the enemy and buy time for a U.S. Navy still on the drawing boards. In August 1943, PT 109 was sliced in half by a japanese destroyer. Kennedy led his surviving crew through a sea aflame from gasoline, towing one badly burned sailor miles to the nearest island.
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A filmmaker describes her experiences while making a documentary about a remarkable pale white stallion in the Rocky Mountains. From the day of his birth in an isolated corner of the Rocky Mountains, Cloud's distinctive coloring made him a natural standout, which could easily have been his downfall. But in the days and months that followed his first fragile steps, it became clear that this feisty little colt was a great stallion in the making.