Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9637 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-02-06
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish
• Dubbed in: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 78 minutes

Synopsis
When an ordinary businessman encounters a mysterious radioactive mist during a boating trip, his life takes a bizarre and frightening twist. Soon he finds he is shrinking and within weeks he's just two inches tall battling cats and spiders.

Customer Reviews

A giant of 50s sci-fi
The Incredible Shrinking Man is one of those examples of how your own tastes change over the years. As a kid I always enjoyed the film up until the metaphysical ending, which felt like a cheat, yet now it's one of the things I like best about the film. Throughout the film the narration is constantly leading up to a spiritual and philosophical resolution rather than a physical one, and there's something moving about the hero's realization that all things have a valid place in the universe regardless of size. It also stands up surprisingly well as a science fiction adventure, with the second half's increasingly primal battle for survival against increasingly overwhelming odds both savage and exciting in its ingenuity. And there's also a great sax solo over the terrific main title music. Still a giant among 50s sci-fi.

Brilliant
I hadn't seen this film for some 25-30 years and thought my memory
of it would let me down, what with todays high tec.film procedures, making
it look dated and stilted.
But no not a bit of it, still it stands up as a classic, clever piece of filming.
I enjoyed it every bit as much as I did way back when.

A 'cropped' classic
An absolute top-notch classic - one of the 3 finest SF classics from the 50's (along with The Thing From Another World and The Day The Earth Stood Still). Performances, direction, effects are all superlative: one of the few science fiction masterpieces that dares to delve into the metaphysical!

But please note: this edition, like many vintage classics now on DVD, is widescreen only in the sense that it is a full screen image cropped at top and bottom. This movie was never widescreen originally and so you lose some picture information here. This doesn't often matter too much, but in this case it does. The cropped framing doesn't look right - in some shots, feet and tops of heads are missing, when Scott Carey observes the dripping water tank he (and the audience) usually sees the water droplets splashing to the floor - in this edition, you don't. A small matter, but why can't Universal do what Warner does: offer both full frame and widescreen versions on one disc? Then we could choose which format we prefer.