Tarantula (film)
 Tarantula is a 1955 science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold and starring John Agar Mara Corday and Leo G. Carroll. The screenplay by Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley was based on a story by Arnold inspired by Fresco's teleplay for Science Fiction Theatre No Food for Thought which was aired on May 14 1955.Although the film is set in Arizona it was shot in California with locations for the desert scenes in Apple Valley.