Jack Arnold (October 14 1916 - March 17, 1992) was an American television and film director. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He directed a number of movies starting in 1950. The best known of these, the science fiction films "It Came from Outer Space", "Tarantula", "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "The Incredible Shrinking Man", are noted for their atmospheric black-and-white cinematography and unusually sophisticated scripts. Wikipedia
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