Soapy Smith gambling house. Legend has it that above the entrance of the stairway leading upstairs to the gambling games was a sign that read "caveat emptor", Latin for "let the buyer beware". Smith's younger brother, Bascomb Smith, joined the gang and operated a cigar store that was a front for dishonest poker games and other swindles, operating in one of the back rooms. Other operations included fraudulent lottery shops, a "sure-thing" stock exchange, fake watch and bogus diamond auctions, and the sale of stocks in nonexistent businesses. Because of bribes, some of the police officers patrolling the streets would not arrest
Beware! The Blob red plastic balloon, semi-transparent red plastic sheeting illuminated with a backlight, and a large rotating red drum of hard red silicone placed in front of the camera lens. Renowned cinematographer Dean Cundey, who would later go on to be a cinematographer on such films as "Halloween", "The Thing", the "Back to the Future" series and "Jurassic Park", worked on "Beware! The Blob" as one of the three special effects technicians (alongside supervisor Tim Baar and Conrad Rothmann) responsible for creating the Blob effects. Cundey was also the camera operator on second unit shots of the Blob eating the fly, the