The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
Actors:
Bill Cassady (actor),
Edmund Cobb (actor),
Myron Cook (actor),
Jimmy Cross (actor),
John Daheim (actor),
Paul Hahn (actor),
Michael Harris (actor),
Keith Hetherington (actor),
Judd Holdren (actor),
William Hudson (actor),
William Hughes (actor),
Frank Jenks (actor),
Jack Kosslyn (actor),
Stanley Lachman (actor),
Russ Bender (actor),
Plot: Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast at Camp Desert Rock. Though burned over 90% of his body, he survives, and begins to grow in size. As he grows, his heart and circulatory system fail to keep pace with his growth, and he is gradually losing his mind as a result of reduced blood supply to his brain. He reaches 50 feet tall before his growth is stopped. By this time he has become insane. He escapes and wreaks havoc upon Las Vegas before he is finally stopped.
Keywords: airplane-accident, boulder-dam, camp-desert-rock, character-name-in-title, death-of-title-character, falling-from-height, four-word-title, giant, helicopter, hoover-dam
Genres:
Sci-Fi,
Taglines: A Seventy Foot Giant Is Terrorizing Las Vegas... Not even the U.S. Army can keep her away from the man she loved--but only the U.S. Army can save her from the monster he became! NEVER SINCE "KING KONG" SUCH A MIGHTY MOTION PICTURE! Savage Giant on a Blood-Mad Rampage! Growing...! Growing...! Growing...! To a Giant! to a Monster! When will it stop?
Quotes:
Manning: What kind of sin could a man commit in a single lifetime to bring this upon himself?
[Dr. Lindstrom explains to Carol that Glenn's heart isn't growing as fast as the rest of his body]::Dr. Paul Linstrom: Now, the reason for this is rather technical, Carol, but to give you a simplified layman's explanation, it might be explained that, since the heart is made up of a *single* cell for all practical purposes, instead of millions of cells like the rest of the organs of the body, it's reacting in an entirely different manner to this unknown stimulus or forces behind this whole thing.
Manning: [reading newspaper] "Man Lives Through Plutonium Blast"::[laughs cynically]::Manning: They call THIS living?
Manning: I don't want to grow anymore.
Manning: Why don't you ask me what it feels like to be a freak?
Manning: Perhaps it isn't I who's growing, but it's everyone who's shrinking!
Henry: [tosses bottle after seeing the Colossal Man] Not another drop! Not another drop as long as I live!
Manning: I just don't want to grow anymore. I don't want to grow anymore!
Manning: They gave me an expandable sarong... Army ingenuity!
Henry Aldrich, Editor (1942)
Actors:
Leon Belasco (actor),
Ed Brady (actor),
Dick Chandlee (actor),
Cliff Clark (actor),
Chester Clute (actor),
Maurice Costello (actor),
Kernan Cripps (actor),
Edgar Dearing (actor),
Eddie Dunn (actor),
Ralph Dunn (actor),
Tom Fadden (actor),
Franklyn Farnum (actor),
Walter Fenner (actor),
George B. French (actor),
Erville Alderson (actor),
Plot: Henry (James Lydon) gets into another jam when he becomes the editor of the Centerville Hish School newspaper. The Fire Chief suspects him when he covers fires.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, henry-aldrich, sequel
Genres:
Comedy,