‘Doll dwarfs versus the crushing giant beasts!’
Attack of the Puppet People is a 1958 American science fiction horror film directed, produced and written by Bert I. Gordon.
The Alta Vista Productions movie stars John Hoyt as an eccentric doll maker plus John Agar and June Kenney. It was distributed by American International Pictures (AIP).
Plot:
Sally Reynolds (June Kenney) answers a newspaper advertisement for a secretary; Franz’s previous one has mysteriously vanished. Although she is concerned about his obsession with his dolls, she reluctantly agrees to take the job.
Sally soon meets a travelling salesman, Bob Westley (John Agar), who immediately sets about attempting to seduce her. Their relationship becomes serious enough that Bob persuades Sally to quit her job, promising to break the news to Franz.
The next day, however, Franz informs Sally that Bob has gone back home to take care of business and that she should forget him. She, however, is unwilling to accept this and goes to the police with a theory about Franz’s role in her boyfriend’s disappearance (“He made Bob into a doll!”), but Sergeant Paterson (Jack Kosslyn) is sceptical.
Franz has developed a machine which can shrink people down to a sixth of their original size. He then uses it on anyone who tries to leave him. When he finds that Sally plans to quit, she becomes his latest victim…
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Film Facts:
I Was a Teenage Doll (working title)
Six Inches Tall (UK)
