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Quotes from Tarantula (1955)

8 quotes
John Agar
Sheriff Jack Andrews: What have you git, Matt?
Dr. Matt Hastings: I don't know, but we've got to keep our mouths shut until we know.
- John Agar (as Dr. Matt Hastings) in Tarantula (1955)

Leo G. Carroll
Prof. Gerald Deemer: The disease of hunger, like most diseases, well, it spreads. There are 2 billion people in the world today. In 1975 there'll be 3 billion. In the year 2000, there'll be 3,625,000,000. The world may not be able to produce enough food to feed all these people. Now perhaps you'll understand what an inexpensive nutrient will mean.
Dr. Matt Hastings: Well, not many of us look that far in the future, sir.
Prof. Gerald Deemer: Our business is the future. No man can do it on his own, of course. You don't pull it out of your hat like a magician's rabbit. You - well, you build on what hundreds of others have learned before you.
- Leo G. Carroll (as Prof. Gerald Deemer) in Tarantula (1955)

Leo G. Carroll
Prof. Gerald Deemer: The history of medicine is the history of the unusual;
- Leo G. Carroll (as Prof. Gerald Deemer) in Tarantula (1955)

Leo G. Carroll
Dr. Matt Hastings: But what if circumstances magnified one of them in size and strength, took it out of its primitive world, and turned it loose in ours?
Prof. Townsend: Then expect something that's fiercer, more cruel and deadly than anything that ever walked on earth!
- Leo G. Carroll (as Prof. Gerald Deemer) in Tarantula (1955)

John Agar
Dr. Matt Hastings: I may be just a country doctor, but I know what I know.
- John Agar (as Dr. Matt Hastings) in Tarantula (1955)

John Agar
Dr. Matt Hastings: The desert, it gives people wonderful ideas!
- John Agar (as Dr. Matt Hastings) in Tarantula (1955)

John Agar
Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton: What does it look like?
Dr. Matt Hastings: Oh, like something from another life scienc... quiet, yet strangely evil as if it were hiding its secrets from man.
Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton: You make it sound so creepy.
Dr. Matt Hastings: The unknown always is.
- John Agar (as Dr. Matt Hastings) in Tarantula (1955)

Ross Elliott
Joe Burch: I nearly wet the bed when I heard about Jacobs.
- Ross Elliott (as Joe Burch) in Tarantula (1955)