On this day in movie history - The Incredible Melting Man (1977 movie & book):

The Incredible Melting Man

directed and written by William Sachs,

released in New York City, on December 23, 1977.

Music by Arlon Ober.

Cast:

Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey, Michael Alldredge, Ann Sweeny, Lisle Wilson, Cheryl Smith / Rainbeaux Smith, Julie Drazen, Stuart Edmond Rodgers, Chris Witney, Edwin Max, Dorothy Love, Janus Blythe, Jonathan Demme, Westbrook Claridge, DeForest Covan, Samuel W. Gelfman / Sam Gelfman, Bonnie Inch, Mickey Lolich, Keith Michl, Leigh Mitchell, Don Walters, Newell Alexander, Rosemary Alexander / Rosemary Lovell, Dave Hull, Jennifer Mulaire, Rob Bottin, Jim Inch, Robert J. Koster.

Recommended reading:

The Incredible Melting Man

By Phil Smith.

Published by New English Library.

Published 1978.

Paperback.

ISBN 13: 9780450038617

ISBN 10: 0450038610

ASIN: 0450038610

Description:

Three astronauts had returned safely from the Mars Landing.

Two were dead and Steve West was on the run.

On the run from the quarantine hospital which had been treating him … from the authorities who has to conceal his escape at all costs … from his friend Ted Nelson … and from the dreadful organism which had taken possession of his flesh, turning him into a fiendish nightmare but leaving his mind intact to cringe from the murderous horror he had become.