| Monster on the Campus | |
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 Theatrical release poster by Reynold Brown | |
| Directed by | Jack Arnold |
| Written by | David Duncan |
| Produced by | Joseph Gershenson |
| Starring | Arthur Franz Joanna Cook Moore Nancy Walters Troy Donahue Whit Bissell |
| Cinematography | Russell Metty |
| Edited by | Ted J. Kent |
| Distributed by | Universal-International |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Monster on the Campus (a.k.a. Monster in the Night[1] and Stranger on the Campus) is a 1958 American black-and-white science fiction/horror film from Universal-International, produced by Joseph Gershenson, directed by Jack Arnold, from a script by David Duncan,[2][3] that stars Arthur Franz, Joanna Cook Moore, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue, and Whit Bissell. The film was theatrically released as a double feature with the British horror film Blood of the Vampire.
The film's storyline tells of a university science professor who accidentally comes into contact with the irradiated blood of a coelacanth, which causes him to "regress" to being a primitive caveman.