Jack Arnold was the most important director of science fiction films in the 1950s, including “It Came From Outer Space,” “Creature from the Black Lagoon” and “The Incredible Shrinking Man,” among others. He also directed the Peter Sellers classic “The Mouse That Roared.” In 1980, the Probabilities crew, Richard A. Lupoff, Lawrence Davidson and Richard Wolinsky interviewed Jack Arnold in his office at Universal Pictures in Hollywood. This in-depth interview has never been presented in its entirety, and has not been available for nearly forty years. Digitized and re-edited by Richard Wolinsky in July, 2021.

