The Magnetic Monster (1953) on Netflix
OSI agents Jeffrey Stewart and Dan Forbes are called to a hardware store whose metal stock has turned magnetic. They trace the force to an artificial isotope that feeds on nearby energy.
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Plot summary
A hardware store's clocks all stop at the same hour, and every metal item on its shelves has turned magnetic. The Office of Scientific Investigation sends agents Dr. Jeffrey Stewart and Dr. Dan Forbes to look, and they trace the source to an office above the shop, where scientific apparatus and traces of radioactivity are found. Whatever caused it has already moved. A public appeal points to an airliner and to Dr. Howard Denker, a scientist weakened by radiation sickness who will not let go of a heavy briefcase. Denker bombarded an artificial isotope, serranium, with alpha particles for two hundred hours. It now draws energy from whatever lies near it, doubling in size every eleven hours and throwing off both intense magnetism and radiation.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Magnetic Monster (1953)
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- The film's Deltatron device used ten minutes of footage of the atom smasher from Gold (1934), the German science fiction thriller directed by Karl Hartl and produced by UFA.
- Richard Carlson's first science fiction or horror film was The Magnetic Monster; he followed it with It Came from Outer Space, The Maze, Riders to the Stars and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
- For scientific authenticity, the movie featured the Los Alamos MANIAC computer, and UCLA's differential analyzer from the same era is also shown briefly.
