Gail Gilmore Elsa as Elsa. Tisha Sterling Jean as Jean. Tim Rooney Pete as Pete. Kevin O'Neal Harry as Harry. Charla Doherty Nancy as Nancy. Toni Basil Red as Red. Hank Jones Chuck as Chuck. Jim Begg Fatso as Fatso. Debi Storm Cora as Cora. Rance Howard Deputy as Deputy. Vicki London Georgette as Georgette. Bert I. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Mike thinks he's hit the jackpot when his girlfriend Nancy's kid brother, who they call Genius, creates a growth compound that results in animals growing to huge proportions.
A group of delinquents led by Fred has come to town and when they get their hands the goo, as Genius calls it, their giant size make them unstoppable. While Genius tries to recreate the formula, Mike and other teenagers in town, serve the giants. Genius simply can't reproduce the formula but fortunately comes up with the next best thing. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia Vicki London was originally cast in the lead female role, but it was given to Joy Harmon after London refused to show her boobs to the director.
She said in an interview "During the wardrobe fittings, Bert Gordon wanted us [Joy Harmon, Tisha Sterling, Gail Gilmore] to take off our shirts and show him our breasts because he wanted the girl with the biggest ones to play the lead and be featured in the movie poster. I refused and Tisha did too. They still gave Tisha a very nice part but it was down hill after this for me.
They made an issue out of me not willing to show my breasts, so they threatened that if I didn't do it they were going to cut me out of everything and they did. I never had any qualms with nudity so I readily said yes. Joy did too, but Vicki refused. Goofs The size of the giants is not consistent throughout the film, along with some of the miniature props they handle. Quotes Genius : This time I was sure I had it. Elsa : Okay.
User reviews 49 Review. Top review. Very funny movie, but is it really a "village? Gordon's "Village of the Giants" is a humorously poor version of the "big thing make boom" movies in which a small group Maybe 6, hardly a full village of teens take a formula that makes them grow really big, talk really slow, and move like they are dying one breath at a time.
It's all rather silly, and quite funny if you're up for this kind of movie. Of course, it's not funny in the way Gordon intended. Was it ever? Tommy Kirk, also of the classic "Mars Needs Women" is fooling around with his lady friend in the start of the film, when Ronny Howard Still with a full head o' hair, and answering to the modest name "Genius" creates a formula that makes things grow. When the no-good drifter teens get their hands on it, they cause some real trouble, and it's up to Tommy and Ronny to stop the chaosy.
The best scene is the first in which the teens appear before the town. They show up at an outdoor barbecue, and everyone is afraid, but really, not so afraid that they run away or anything, they just kind of look up and gasp a lot. So then the giants are making threats, and Tommy, in a fit of rage and large hair, picks up a chair That just happened to be sitting around outside in a park and breaks it over the giants legs They pretend, use your imagination.
He goes "Ow! Very nicely done. The whole film takes place in a vacuum. No one seems to be much surprised or worried by the giants ducks that show up out of nowhere in the Whiskey A Go-Go and start dancing. They just kind of go along with it. Nor is anyone interested in calling the government in when the teens take over the town. They just sort of go with it.
And really when these giants move as slow as they do, why would anyone be afraid of them? You can always outrun them, or if they try something, take two steps to the left. When the sheriff and Mike arrive to deal with them, they discover that the giants have no plans to leave — and are literally holding the sheriff's daughter, as 'insurance' that they won't have any trouble.
While the town's adults seem paralyzed, the teens decide to fight back. An attempt to capture Fred results in Nancy being taken hostage. Meanwhile, Genius continues to work, trying to produce more Goo. Mike asks Genius to forget the Goo for a while, and make them a supply of ether — having noticed the giants only leave one guard on the hostages, Mike and Horsey plot to subdue that guard, recover the guns, and free Nancy and the sheriff's daughter.
Having led the giants outside the theater, Mike plays David to Fred's Goliath, to distract them while Horsey and the others effect the rescue. Genius' newest attempt at Goo results in an antidote. He rides over to the square on a bicycle with a pail full of the fuming antidote.
As the giants breathe in the fumes, they all return to normal. Mike cold-cocks the surprised Fred, and promptly runs him and his friends, looking silly in their now-oversized clothes, out of town. However, as Fred and the others reach their car, they meet a travelling band of midgets who have the torn-out telephone lines, overturned broadcasting antennas, and blocked roads notwithstanding heard about the 'goo' and its effects and are heading into the town to investigate the substance.
The film's instrumental theme song, by composer and arranger Jack Nitzsche, was originally released as 'The Last Race' on Reprise Records, months before the movie appeared, and which would later be used as the main title music for Death Proof , Quentin Tarantino's portion of the film Grindhouse , in Cannon enjoyed a string of hits during the s, including 'Palisades Park' and 'Tallahassee Lassie', and performs 'Little Bitty Corrine' in his signature style wearing a cardigan sweater in the summertime , while Mike Clifford veteran of The Ed Sullivan Show , and later an actor croons the movie's obligatory slow song, 'Marianne'.
Clifford is also credited with another song, 'Nothing can Stand in my Way', but this does not appear in the film. There was no official soundtrack release for this movie. The film's director, Bert I. Gordon, was involved with many size-themed movies in his career perhaps coincidentally, his initials are 'BIG'.
The film was made by Gordon's newly formed Berkeley Productions. It was to be the first of a three-year picture deal between Berkeley and Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Productions. Some of these were to be for TV, others for theaters.
Freak and Horror House , but neither one was made. Vicki London, who played Georgette, is absent from the screen for most of the giant scenes in the film. Robert Random and Joy Harmon each also appeared in episodes of Gidget , which debuted in the fall of The cat appearing in this film was named Orangey later renamed Minerva , and Village of the Giants was the second time he played the role of a cat larger than a human, the first being Scott Carey's actor Grant Williams pet in The Incredible Shrinking Man His most famous roles were as 'Rhubarb' in the film Rhubarb and the cat in Breakfast at Tiffany's Tommy Kirk made the film after his arrest for drug possession.
He later said he wasn't 'too embarrassed' about the film. I could have done without the dancing ducks, though. Beau Bridges has one of his earliest roles as the unofficial leader of the teenagers who turn into giants. When I did it, I was about 18 or 19, and I took it all quite seriously. I thought it was my chance to really be a spokesperson for my generation, you know? I had that long speech when I'm in the theater, and I've eaten this goo I address the police chief of the town about the young people, the teenagers, that he says are losing control, and I speak out about freedom and everything.
I took it so seriously, and I think I even rewrote my lines. Now, though, it's, uh, a little embarrassing. Alan Caillou's original script called for the sheriff's deputy played by Rance Howard to be stepped on by the giants. If the scene was ever filmed, it did not make the final edit, and no known footage of it exists.
The lot is now owned by Warner Brothers. The scene where the giants convene outside the Hainesville theater was shot at the Courthouse Square lot at Universal Studios, where Back to the Future and Gremlins were later made. The film's goo was a simple mixture of angel food cake mix with pink-colored dye. The beer the 'teenagers' are drinking at the beginning of the film is Blatz, and the ' Teen magazine Joy Harmon reads during one part of the film is an actual issue, from the summer of
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