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"The Incredible Shrinking Man" Publicity Still
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Still from the 1957 Universal film "The Incredible Shrinking Man," featuring Grant Williams (as Scott Carey), a tiny man sitting on top of medicine bottles on a bedside table. The caption on the back of the print reads: "Grant Williams, deminished [sic] to less than an inch in height by a mystery ailment, finds that the everyday world he knew has become a gargantuan chamber of horrors in which he is trapped in Universal-International's terrifying science-fiction thriller, 'The Incredible Shrinking Man,' which stars Williams with Randy Stuart."
1957
Universal Pictures (Firm)
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W013MA5
WHi 90650
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