Universal offered The Monolith Monsters in 1957, a still-fresh premise in the form of meteoric crystals that threaten to crush an isolated Arizona town through their tumbling procession.

Dosing their path with salt will halt them. But to do this requires inundating the local salt mine with water from a nearby dam. Near-frantic efforts are made obtain the governor's permission to blow it up, as in their advance, the sky-scraping crystals have brought down the phone lines.

For the same reason, the people can't be warned to evacuate, so the town newspaper editor enlists his delivery boys to spread the word, who express reluctance to do so, unless they are paid.

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