Starring: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, Paul Langton, and Orangey – as Butch the cat (uncredited!)

Kick off February with The Deuce and the 1957 sci-fi masterpiece THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN… at our very first “Sunday Brunch” screening at Nitehawk Prospect Park!! A glorious 35mm print on the even more glorious, giant screen of Theater 1! AND: we’re thrilled to welcome our special guest-curator, Foster Hirsch, writer of Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties! Stay after the flick to meet Foster and purchase a signed copy in Trees Lounge, with the Maestro Jeff spinning ’50s rock and roll…!

An aimless afternoon afloat turns atrocious when sunbaked Robert ‘Scott’ Carey (Grant Williams), aboard his brother’s yacht, heads straight into an ominous nuclear mist… Six months later, Scott begins downsizing a few belt notches, baffling his doctors and petrifying his wife Louise (Randy Stuart). Soon Scott is a national curiosity, residing in the family dollhouse, watching the now preposterously out-sized world continue to turn “without” him… and after a harrowing battle with their pet cat “Butch,” Scott plummets into the cellar, a literal underworld of catastrophic, tyrannical terror – and a test of Scott’s intellect and will to survive.…

In the words of film historian, professor, and prolific author Foster Hirsch, from his Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties!: “Atomic beasts tend to be oversized, but in THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, horror is located in the opposite direction, as an unstoppable movement towards invincibility … On his own in the basement, [Scott] becomes a heroic survivor, growing smaller as his spirit expands … The unfaltering direction by underrated Jack Arnold, the pitch-perfect performances of nonstars Grant Williams and Randy Stuart as Mr. and Mrs. America–if there is a more accurate depiction of an everyday 1950s couple, I don’t know of it–and Richard Matheson’s multileveled screenplay transform a film with an exploitation title into a penetrating and poetic portrait of America at midcentury.”

Originally opening in February of 1957, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN shocked audiences of all ages at Times Square’s Globe Theatre – now the Lunt-Fontanne – and The Deuce will shock YOU!! At Nitehawk Prospect Park!!