A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Karyn Kupcinet
- Shirley
- (as Tammy Windsor)
Meri Welles
- Leonora Clyde
- (as Merri Welles)
John Herman Shaner
- Dr. Phoebus Farb
- (as John Shaner)
Robert Coogan
- Tramp
- (uncredited)
Jack Griffin
- Drunk
- (uncredited)
Charles B. Griffith
- Kloy Haddock - Hold-up Man
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
- Director
- Writers
- Charles B. Griffith
- Roger Corman(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) was shot on a budget of $22,500 to $28,000 (about $240,000 in 2019), with interiors being shot about two days, utilizing sets that had been left standing from A Bucket of Blood (1959).
- GoofsMel Welles's character name is spelled as "Mushnik" in the end credits, but appears as "Mushnick" on the sign outside his shop.
- Alternate versionsThe Filmgroup Inc. opening logo is cut from some prints.
- ConnectionsEdited into Saturday the 14th (1981)
- SoundtracksAuld Lang Syne
(1788) (uncredited)
Traditional Scottish ballad
Words by Robert Burns
Sung off-screen and a cappella by Jonathan Haze
Featured review
Still Unique Even After 45 Years
Here's a movie that's gone from cult classic to just plain classic. For me, it's one of the few "cult classics" I saw when it was released and then first shown on television. I loved it then, and I love it now.
Forget the musical re-make made in the 1980s. It couldn't hold a candle to the original.
"Original" is what this is, too. and nowadays, it's great to have it on DVD in which the audio is clear and the picture pretty sharp.
I have always particularly enjoyed the many humorous lines delivered by Mel Welles, who plays the flower shop owner. He is the real comedian of the cast, although the plant does quite well as do the two leads played by Jonathan Haze and Jackie Joseph. The latter two are a little more subtle in their comedy.
All the characters in here are totally whacked, from Haze's hypochondriac mother to Dick Miller's flower-eating character to the Jewish mother who always has a dead relative to moan about and to the dentist and his patient. The latter, of course, is Jack Nicholson, making his movie debut and looking about 16 years old.
In the end, though, what one remembers most is the plant demanding, over and over, to "Feeeeeed me!!"
For that, the plant and the film never fail to make me laugh.
Forget the musical re-make made in the 1980s. It couldn't hold a candle to the original.
"Original" is what this is, too. and nowadays, it's great to have it on DVD in which the audio is clear and the picture pretty sharp.
I have always particularly enjoyed the many humorous lines delivered by Mel Welles, who plays the flower shop owner. He is the real comedian of the cast, although the plant does quite well as do the two leads played by Jonathan Haze and Jackie Joseph. The latter two are a little more subtle in their comedy.
All the characters in here are totally whacked, from Haze's hypochondriac mother to Dick Miller's flower-eating character to the Jewish mother who always has a dead relative to moan about and to the dentist and his patient. The latter, of course, is Jack Nicholson, making his movie debut and looking about 16 years old.
In the end, though, what one remembers most is the plant demanding, over and over, to "Feeeeeed me!!"
For that, the plant and the film never fail to make me laugh.
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- ccthemovieman-1
- Oct 31, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
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By what name was The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) officially released in India in English?
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