Monster on the Campus (1958) was a black and white, science fiction, horror film, released by Universal Pictures on a low budget. It was also known as Monster in the Night, and Stranger on the Campus. This film was the last of Universal’s science fiction monster films released before Island of Terror (1966).

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The film was directed by Jack Arnold (Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Incredible Shrinking Man) and from a script by David Duncan (The Time Machine).

Professor Donald Blake (Arthur Franz) has a collection of facial reconstructions depicting the ascent of man from the early hominids to modern man (or woman in this case, actress Joanna Moore). One of them is that of Piltdown Man, whose “discovery” in 1912 was exposed as a hoax in 1953, five years before the movie was released.

Cast
  Arthur Franz … Prof. Donald Blake
  Joanna Moore … Madeline Howard
  Judson Pratt … Lieutenant Mike Stevens
  Nancy Walters … Sylvia Lockwood
  Troy Donahue … Jimmy Flanders
  Phil Harvey … Sergeant Powell
  Helen Westcott … Nurse Molly Riordan
  Alexander Lockwood … Professor Gilbert Howard
  Whit Bissell … Dr. Oliver Cole
  Ross Elliott … Sergeant Eddie Daniels

Joanna Moore