Monster on the Campus

Monster on the Campus Monster in the Night and Stranger on the Campus is a 1958 American science fictionhorror film, released by UniversalInternational. It was directed by Jack Arnold, from a script by David Duncan.

Professor Donald Blake Arthur Franz acquires a newly discovered coelacanth. He begins to examine the find and is exposed to its irradiated blood. This turns him into a murderous Neanderthal monster that terrorizes the campus.The working title of the film was Monster in the Night. Although Universal music director Joseph Gershenson had received executive producer credit on some films of the 1940s, Monster on the Campus marked the first film for which he received sole credit as producer. This was the film debut of Nancy Walters.Arthur Franz only played Prof. Donald Blake. Once the makeup transformation scenes were over, stuntman Eddie Parker did every scene as the Monster. ........

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