The Killer Shrews (1959)

Share this quote on facebook If you have to be isolated for your work you sure picked a lonely little island.

Share this quote on facebook They don't leave much, do they?

Share this quote on facebook Why, that's as big as a full-grown wolf!

Share this quote on facebook Don't let their head get under! They'll flip us over!

Share this quote on facebook In my book engagement isn't a casual thing.

Share this quote on facebook Looks like a rat, smells like a skunk - some call them bone-eaters.

Share this quote on facebook Hematoxic syndrome - it must be hematoxic syndrome.

Share this quote on facebook Just ripped my trousers, that's all.

Share this quote on facebook Ann Craigis: You're a strange man, Thorne. I never met anyone like you. You seem so disinterested in everything. Aren't you the least bit curious? Don't you wonder about the unusual things around here? The guns. The fence. The shattered windows. My accent. Anything?

Share this quote on facebook 'Rook' Griswold: Automatic pilot can't play Dixieland jazz on them banjos like I can!

Share this quote on facebook Dr. Milo Craigis Their available food on ze island is nearing depletion!

Share this quote on facebook Dr. Milo Craigis: Well, I'm attempting to-to decrease the size by maintaining a low metabolism and result in a longer life-span.
Thorne Sherman: What reason?
Dr. Milo Craigis: Over-population. Not a problem now, but it will be in time. If we were half as big as we are now, we could live twice as long on our natural resources.

Share this quote on facebook Ann Craigis: I know, but I'm not saying you created them, Jerry. I am saying that because of your drunken stupidity in leaving the cage door open you created the horrible situation that now exists.
Jerry Farrell: Look, Ann, this is a mistake any one of us might've made. And I'm getting a little sick of being called an irresponsible drunk, now believe me I am.

Share this quote on facebook Ann Craigis: But this ends it. If we ever get off this island, I'll never have anything to do with it again.
Thorne Sherman: What will you do?
Ann Craigis: Live normally, like normal women do. It may seem a little dull after the life I've been living. But rather dull and alive than excited and...
Thorne Sherman: I'll take a dull, alive woman every time.

Share this quote on facebook Dr. Milo Craigis: In 24 hours there will be one shrew left on the island, and he will be dead of starvation. An excellent example of overpopulation.
Thorne Sherman: You know something doctor?
Dr. Milo Craigis: What's that?
Thorne Sherman: I'm not going to worry about overpopulation just yet

Share this quote on facebook They had to eat 3 times their body weight each day... OR STARVE!

Share this quote on facebook "Your skin will crawl with fear at their nearness"

Share this quote on facebook All that was left after...THE KILLER SHREWS!