Attack of the Puppet People (1958) on Netflix
Sally Reynolds takes a secretary job at Dolls Inc., the doll company Mr. Franz runs. Lifelike dolls fill his locked case. Bob Westley, a salesman, grows close to her.
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Sally Reynolds sees a help-wanted ad and takes a secretary job at Dolls Inc., the doll company that Mr. Franz owns and runs. His friendly, pushy manner makes her uneasy, but the company needs the help, so she stays. A salesman named Bob Westley stops by, and the two become close. After some weeks at the factory he proposes and asks her to leave the job, promising to tell Franz himself. The next day Franz says Bob has gone home to handle extended business.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
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- Alfred C. Baldwin III, the lookout for the Watergate burglary, was watching Attack of the Puppet People on television during the break-in; distracted by the film, he failed to notice a police car arriving soon enough for his accomplices to escape.
- According to actor Ken Miller, who played Stan, John Agar was so sore after doing the scene where his character Bob climbs down from a table that a masseur had to be brought in for him the following day. Miller also found climbing up to the doorknob arduous because the rope was made of rubber and stretched as he climbed.
- To sell the size-changing plot, the film used over-sized props including a giant telephone borrowed from the phone company and props made by Paul Blaisdell, plus extensive split screen so the puppet people appear miniature in the same frame as normal-sized characters like John Hoyt's Franz.
- American International Pictures and Bert I. Gordon rushed the film into production to capitalize on the popular success of Universal-International's The Incredible Shrinking Man, released the previous year, 1957.
- Director Bert I. Gordon's daughter, Susan Gordon, joined the cast as a last-minute substitute for another child actress who was ill and unable to perform.
