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"Well, speaking of spiders - are you sure rifles are just the thing? Insects have a pretty simple nervous system, sheriff. You could plug holes in one all day and never hit a vital spot. If you want to be on the safe side, call the pest control people in Springdale and have 'em send out all the DDT they can find."
"[to Mrs. Kingman] It'd be a good idea if you'd stay inside the house for awhile."
"The Spider will eat you alive!"
"Bullets...won't kill it! Flames...can't burn it! Nothing...can stop it!"
"50 tons of creeping black horror!"
"It Must Eat You to Live!"
"It was actually one of the easier films."
"I used a real spider in the film…as I did on many of my films. I used some nice tarantulas that were very friendly."
"Ed Kemmer — Mr. Kingman"
"June Kenney — Carol Flynn"
"Eugene Persson — Mike Simpson"
"Gene Roth — Sheriff Cagle"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.