- For the episode, see MST3K 108 - The Slime People.
Plot[]
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.
The Professor's reasoning that salt would be effective against slug-like creatures gives them a weapon against the Slime People. But freeing the city requires an assault against the creatures' own stronghold, which becomes even more essential when Bonnie is taken prisoner.
Cast[]
- 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
Notes[]
- 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).
- In an interview, star/director Robert Hutton said that neither he nor the stuntmen were ever paid for their work in this film.
- Susan Hart didn't have to read for the role of Lisa Galbraith; she was automatically cast on the basis of her attractive looks alone when she showed up for the casting session.
- Because of this film's low budget, Susan Hart was given only $35 to buy her own wardrobe.
- Richard Arlen was originally considered for the role of Prof. Galbraith.
MST3K Connections[]
- 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..
- Cinematographer William G. Troiano was also cinematographer for The Wild Wild World of Batwoman.
- Sound mixer Rod Sutton was also sound mixer for Hangar 18 and Catalina Caper, as well as sound supervisor for King Dinosaur and sound technician for It Lives by Night.
- Special effects technician Harry Woolman also did special effects for Hangar 18, The Incredible Melting Man, Laserblast, and Agent for H.A.R.M..
- Special effects technician Charles Duncan also did special effects for The Crawling Hand and The Phantom Planet.
- Lighting technician George Breslaw was also chief electrician for Agent for H.A.R.M..
- Camera operator James Crabe was also cinematographer for Agent for H.A.R.M..
- Stock music composer Paul Sawtell was also composer for The Black Scorpion and The Bubble, as well as having composed stock music used in The Brute Man.
- Stock music composer Bert Shefter was also orchestrator for The Black Scorpion and composer for The Bubble.