Factual error: In the police station, when Dave receives a call from Jim, the phone sits atop a phone book marked "Seaford/Laurel" on the spine. The towns of Seaford and Laurel are next to each other in Maryland, while the movie takes place in Chester County, Pennsylvania, notably around Downingtown and Phoenixville. Laurel is over 100 miles from Chester County. There is no reason for a Chester County police station to have a phone book from towns 100 miles away. (04:03:33)
The Blob (1958)
1 mistake since 4 Jan '26, 23:21
Directed by: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland
Steve Andrews: You know, plenty of people in their right minds thought they saw stuff like flying saucers. The light was just right in the angle of the imagination. And oh boy if that's what this is, this is just an ordinary night, and you and I are going to go home to sleep, and tomorrow the sun will shine just like yesterday, good old yesterday.
Question: The movie was made in 1958, why does the calendar in police station show July 1957?
Answer: Because movies aren't always set in the year they're released. Absent any conflicting information, the assumption must be that the events of the movie take place around July 1957.