(Their kinship strengthens as they build a variety of experiences ogether.) The family dog barks and threatens the little creature, scaring him as Elliott leaves the room.While Elliott is loading up on food from the refrigerator (Skippypeanut butter, cheese and tomatoes, a carton of milk), he is startled by the alien""s scream.It then opened with a preface intertitle:About two centuries ago, in a corner of the kingdom of Prussia, lived a little princess - - chosen by destiny to become the greatest Monarch - - Tsarina of all the Russias - - the ill-famed Messalina of the North.Poisonous gas vials or capsules (with skull and cross-bones labels) were being applied to research test subjects in tubes - spiders.A serious, nervous, hard-working, bookish and bespectacled museum paleontologist named Dr.David Huxley (Cary Grant, playing a character in part modeled after silent comedian Harold Lloyd) is attempting to finish the reconstruction of the brontosaurus skeleton.