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La révolte des poupées

Original title: Attack of the Puppet People
  • 1958
  • 12
  • 1h 19m
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5.2/10
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La révolte des poupées (1958)
A lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people. When the teenagers under his control realize their fate, they attempt to escape.
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Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.

  • Director
    • Bert I. Gordon
  • Writers
    • George Worthing Yates
    • Bert I. Gordon
  • Stars
    • John Agar
    • John Hoyt
    • June Kenney
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    • Director
      • Bert I. Gordon
    • Writers
      • George Worthing Yates
      • Bert I. Gordon
    • Stars
      • John Agar
      • John Hoyt
      • June Kenney
    • 71User reviews
    • 39Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    John Agar
    John Agar
    • Bob Westley
    John Hoyt
    John Hoyt
    • Mr. Franz
    June Kenney
    June Kenney
    • Sally Reynolds
    • (as June Kenny)
    Michael Mark
    Michael Mark
    • Emil
    Jack Kosslyn
    Jack Kosslyn
    • Sgt. Paterson
    Marlene Willis
    Marlene Willis
    • Laurie
    Ken Miller
    Ken Miller
    • Stan
    Laurie Mitchell
    Laurie Mitchell
    • Georgia Lane
    Scott Peters
    • Mac
    Susan Gordon
    Susan Gordon
    • Agnes
    June Jocelyn
    • Brownie Leader
    Jean Moorhead
    Jean Moorhead
    • Janet Hall
    Hank Patterson
    Hank Patterson
    • Night Manager
    Hal Bogart
    • Special Delivery Man
    Troy Patterson
    • Elevator Operator
    Bill Giorgio
    • Delivery Man
    George Diestel
    • Police Receptionist
    Jamie Forster
    • Ernie Larson
    • (as Jaime Forster)
    • Director
      • Bert I. Gordon
    • Writers
      • George Worthing Yates
      • Bert I. Gordon
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    5gavin6942

    Oh, Bert Gordon, You Make Such Great Cheese

    A lonely, deranged puppet-master (John Hoyt) designs a machine that shrinks people.

    Although this film has had rather negative reviews over the years and holds a poor ranking on IMDb, there is a special kind of enjoyment in this film, and any with John Agar and / or directed by Bert Gordon. Are the special effects terrible? Yes. Is the plot weak? Surely. But we expect that from 1950s science fiction films, which I think works in the movie's favor (although decades too late).

    I also appreciate the historical value of this film and its role in the Watergate scandal. I am not familiar with the story, so I cannot say if it is true, but the idea is that instead of warning his co-conspirators of detectives, a Watergate burglar was busy watching this film. Hence, this movie can be credited with bringing down Richard Nixon. That is quite a feat!

    As an added bonus, this film marks the acting debut of Susan Gordon, the director's daughter, who would go on to appear in many of his pictures and in other productions. She was "cast" completely by accident when the real actress was not available, and this decision may have altered the history of the role the Gordon family took in film.
    7twanurit

    Puppet Master

    Yet another minor classic from the 1950s has been released in a pristine B & W print to DVD for posterity and fans' delight. I recall the television print being yellowed and water-marked, but not here, in its crystal clarity, and sharp sound. John Hoyt is excellent as a once-jilted European doll maker who has devised a machine that can shrink animals and humans to about one-sixth their size. When his current secretary/receptionist June Kenney decides to quit to marry John Agar, his loneliness gets the better of him, and they are victimized, along with previous unfortunates. Great rock music is worked into the plot, and they are terrified by a giant rat, cat and dog. Adolph Glasser's music is robust and amplified, the technical effects by the director Bert Gordon well-done for the time (his daughter Susan Gordon plays the little blonde girl). Kenney is a lovely, blue-eyed, shapely blonde, who was "Teen-Age Doll" (1957), while Agar has his best moments in an unnerving puppet show scene with a Dr. Jekyll character. Included in the cast is Laurie Mitchell, the "Queen of Outer Space" (1958), giving a good performance as do the others. Toward the latter part of the decade, nothing was too wild to hit this lucrative market, and this engaging picture stands up to the test of time.
    5Coventry

    Welcome to Mr. BIG's Dollhouse!

    Yes, welcome to another cheerfully inept Bert I. Gordon (B.I.G) Sci-Fi/horror romp, in which the silliness usually triumphs over adequate scripting and where the special effects look cheaper than half a handful of pennies. "Attack of the Puppet People" is a thoroughly shameless cash-in on the success of "The Incredible Shrinking Man", but in this light-headed story there's no room for building up claustrophobic atmosphere, let alone the preaching of philosophical messages. It's a fun and charming little movie, but totally lacking depth, credibility and a proper elaboration of the basic premise. John Hoyt stars as a brilliant doll maker slash inventor of shrinking equipment (rather unusual combination, but okay), but he's very lonely and emotionally frustrated since his beloved wife walked out on him once, several years ago. So now, he uses his magic, invisible ray projecting devise to miniaturize the people he risks losing, like his cute secretary Sally and her fiancé Bob. Mr. Franz keeps his little friends asleep in tubes, but also does his best to entertain them with tiny dance parties, the newest Barbie & Ken outfits and even trips to the 'Jekyl & Hyde' marionette-theater. The 'attack' referred to in the title is quite inaccurate, as the little folks don't attack anyone (with the exception of a lifeless Dr. Jekyll marionette) but they do want to escape and regain their normal previous measurements. "Attack of the Puppet People" is a fairly forgettable and poor film, but it's slightly better and more stylish than most of the things B.I.G accomplished and at least it's never boring. Hoyt is fine as the pitiable & awkward old toymaker, but the supportive cast is too underdeveloped and bleak. If anything, this is an insignificant but pleasant 50's gem with some funny highlights, like the marionette-fight and one of the shrunken gals quacking the cheesy theme song "I'm your living Doll".
    5rosscinema

    Typical Bert I. Gordon fare

    This was your typical low (I mean low!) budget sci-fi film and the film really doesn't build to an exciting climax. The story starts with a pretty young woman named Sally (June Kenney) who applies for an office job at a small company that makes dolls. She is hired by the kindly owner Mr. Franz (John Hoyt) who keeps losing his office workers. While working for Franz she meets a business associate named Bob Westley (John Agar) and of course he is smitten by her immediately and it doesn't take long for them to start dating and eventually he proposes and wants her to move to St. Louis with him. Franz discovers this and Bob disappears. Sally thinks he is making people into dolls and she goes to the cops and talks to Sgt. Paterson (Jack Kosslyn) who is interested because others have disappeared who been in contact with Franz. Finally Franz gets Sally alone and "Poof"! She wakes up and she's shrunken! Franz brings out Bob and a bunch of others that he has shrunk. Franz is able to shrink people with a machine that uses audio waves to break things down into energy matter. Franz is a lonely old man and he wants company! This film was directed by veteran Bert I. Gordon who would end up directing one of my favorite films of all time "Village of the Giants". Gordon usually made his films about people either growing or shrinking. Hoyt gives a convincing performance as Franz and if he's not just irritating then he's aggravating but thats what you would come to expect from an old kook. Kenney is very attractive and its easy to see why she was used in several of these types of films. Agar had already begun his slump into "Z" movie stardom and its very amusing to watch him get angry and tear apart the marionette. The film has an ending that is somewhat inconclusive but maybe Gordon wanted it that way just in case! Very silly film has lousy special effects but thats the charm to these movies. Several of the actors from "Earth vs. The Spider" appear in this film as Gordon liked using actors that he was comfortable with. Gordon's daughter Susan appears as the little blond girl. If you love these cheap sci-fi films of the 50's like I do, then you want to check this out!
    Michael_Elliott

    Pretty Bland 'Attack'

    Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

    * 1/2 (out of 4)

    Lesser film from Bert I Gordon about a lonely old doll maker (John Hoyt) who comes up with something new to stay busy. Instead of making dolls he's going to take real people and shrink them down to a doll size. Two such people (including June Kenney) decide that they don't want to remain this size so they fight to become big again. ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE is a pretty disappointing film when you consider there's really no puppets and no attacks. This is a pretty screenplay that really doesn't offer up anything overly interesting and it appears that no one was really interested in coming up with a story that you could care about. The doll maker really isn't all that interesting and we really don't learn about him being lonely until the end of the picture. Perhaps if they had worked this in earlier we could have gained some sort of connection with him. The secretary role isn't any better as we never begin to care what happens to her. Gordon does a pretty good job with the special effects, which might be the only time in his career. I thought the rear projection was obviously horrible but there's a lot of stuff dealing with miniatures that actually work. The long sequence where a group of people try to escape the office was well-directed and a lot of credit goes to the special effects for actually looking real. The performances are another good thing as Hoyt manages to be good in his role as does John Agar as the woman's love interest. At 79-minutes the film seems a little long at times but I'm sure fans of the director will still want to check this out. Others should probably stay clear.

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    • Trivia
      This was broadcast on television as a late-night movie on the evening of June 17, 1972, during the notorious Watergate burglary in Washington DC. If Alfred C. Baldwin III (who was watching this film in his room of the nearby Howard Johnsons hotel across the street as a lookout for the Watergate burglars) had not been so engrossed in a broadcast of this film, he might have sooner warned his colleagues of the three plainclothes police detectives who arrived at the building and made the historic arrests.
    • Goofs
      Although the actors take great care to ensure, when handling containers with tiny humans inside, that they are always facing the camera, sometimes they get it wrong, revealing that the figures are flat photo cut-outs.
    • Quotes

      Mr. Franz: Oh that. What's it look like to you?

    • Connections
      Featured in Alley Cat Theater: Attack of the Puppet People (1963)
    • Soundtracks
      You're My Living Doll
      (title song)

      Music by Albert Glasser and Don A. Ferris (as Don Ferris)

      Lyrics by Henry Schrage

      Sung by Marlene Willis

      [The song Laurie sings upon request by Mr. Franz]

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    • Release date
      • October 9, 1961 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • El ataque de los títeres humanos
    • Filming locations
      • Hollywood, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Alta Vista Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 19 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White

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