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Vance Skarstedt was the original screenwriter, but his script was rewritten by Robertson's wife Blair. In an interview with Hutton, he said that neither he nor the stuntmen were paid for their work in the film, and that the slime people costumes cost over half of the film's budget.
The Slime People: Directed by Robert Hutton. With Robert Hutton, Les Tremayne, Robert Burton, Susan Hart. After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters, a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
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- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Robert Hutton
- 1966-02-24
The Slime People (1963) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Written by Blair Robertson and Vance Skarstedt, it's a surprise to learn it was filmed as late as 1963, looking as it does like something from the early fifties, and starring a matinee idol, Hutton, who had seen better days.
- Robert Hutton
- 1963
- Science Fiction
- Plot
- Cast
- Notes
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Tom Gregory, a Los Angeles-based sports reporter, is flying into L.A. and lands his private plane after a rough descent through some kind of opaque midair disturbance, only to find the airport deserted. He meets Professor Galvin and his two daughters, Bonnie and Lisa.
The Professor and his daughters tell Tom that the city has been overrun by huge, hulking, slime-covered subterranean beings called Slime People, who appeared out of the sewers and other underground water concentrations. Appearing out of a strange thick fog apparently generated by a device of their own, they've killed hundreds, possibly thousands, panicked the population, fought the army to a standstill, and have now cut off the city with a wall of solidified fog.
•Robert Hutton as Tom Gregory
•Les Tremayne as Norman Tolliver
•Robert Burton as Professor Galbraith
•Susan Hart as Lisa Galbraith
•William Boyce as Cal Johnson
•Judee Morton as Bonnie Galbraith
•The producers originally planned to have creatures called voles in the film as well as the slime people. The voles would have been wolf-like animals from underground that had been domesticated by the slime people, but the were left out of the final script.
•The scenes of devastation supposedly caused by the fight with the slime people (shown briefly while the group is driving away from the airport) is actually footage of the Hollywood Hills shortly after a wildfire swept through the area.
•The scenes in the butcher shop and freezer were filmed in an actual butcher shop owned by the father-in-law of actor/director Robert Hutton in Lancaster, California.
•The two bums who appear in the theater are played by Joseph F. Robertson and Edward Finch Abrams, the film's producer and associate producer, respectively.
•According to director Robert Hutton in a 1989 interview, designing and making the slime people costumes consumed over half the film's entire budget.
•The only film directed by Robert Hutton, who continued acting in England, where he wrote the script for Persecution (1974), starring Lana Turner (because he didn't like cats).
•Writer and actress Blair Robertson (Mrs. Castillo) was also script supervisor for Catalina Caper and writer for Agent for H.A.R.M..
•John Close (Vince Williams) also portrayed a police morgue attendant in The Rebel Set, a reporter in World Without End, Major Everett in Beginning of the End, and an engineer in The Deadly Mantis.
•Actor and stuntman Fred Stromsoe (slime person) was also a stuntman in The Mole People.
•Actor and associate producer Edward Finch Abrams (bum in the theater) was also associate producer for The Crawling Hand and Agent for H.A.R.M..
•Actor and stuntman Bob Herron (slime person) also portrayed a mole person in The Mole People.
•Producer Joseph F. Robertson (who also portrayed a bum in the theater) was also producer for The Crawling Hand and Agent for H.A.R.M..
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