The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) - Region 2 PAL, Plays in English Without subtitles

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Superb 1950's Scifi Movie a film so bad it's good, very funny and a classic for 1950s scifi film buffs/collectors

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The Amazing Colossal Man" is a sci-fi "B-movie" from 1957, directed by Bert I Gordon. It tells the story of an army Colonel who gets himself irradiated in a nuclear blast, somehow survives and starts to grow at 8-10 feet a day.On the upside, the special effects are terrible, even by 1950s standards, it has some fantastically hokey science (all spoken with a straight face), tiny elephants and camels (yes, really), along with some truly inspired moments - the highlight for me being the giant syringe in the helicopter. Genius! I loved it.---------SPOILERS-----Good guy Colonel Glenn Manning (Glen Langan) is in a trench with his men, awaiting the first "plutonium bomb explosion". After the big countdown, it doesn't go off on time, so they're told to sit and wait. (Don't you hate it when that happens?). In the meantime, a small plane crashes nearby. Eager to help, Manning leaps out of the trench and makes his way towards it, just as the bomb finally decides to go off.Somehow he survives but with 95% third-degree burns and is not expected to survive the night. Incredibly the next day, his skin has regenerated completely but he remains in a coma. His fiancé (Cathy Downs) is told she cannot see him, but tracks him down to an army "research and rehabilitation centre" in Nevada, where she discovers he is now 18 feet tall, wearing only a giant nappy and bald (thankfully, however, his eye brows survived). I'm not sure which of those three facts caused her to scream and feint when she first sees him.From there he continues to grow, and despair, as scientists seek a way of reversing the process. Eventually, confused and despairing, he strikes out towards Las Vegas, where he is shot at by the local police and pull the signs off various casinos. By this point he is about 60 feet tall. The ending has a bit of a "King Kong" vibe.In many ways it is quite a sad story - a good man with bad luck - and some of that is captured in Langan's performance, as the despairing, angry, confused Manning - but that is diluted down and whisked along nicely by the terrifically "B"-level, special effects, "search for the cure" science bit (injecting "sulphur-hydril" compounds directly into the bone marrow, followed by stimulating the pituitary gland, apparently) and the frankly genius method by which they plan to administer it.Recommended for all lovers of "B"-movies.

I must have seen film 10 times on afternoon TV after school. For a kid in the 60s, it was bound to fascinate: a devoted and heroic military man, in an attempt to save someone during a plutonium bomb test, is burnt beyond recognition by radiation only to heal and then become a giant monster. With that, what more could a kid want?Seeing it now, it is pretty clunky. The science is way off, though the inability of his circulatory system to cope with his growth is a step in the right direction of believability, I suppose. But someone so big would not even be able to stand or even sit, let alone breath. Bombs were made from plutonium from the beginning. The acting is also pretty bad, just a bunch of nobodies in a b-film.Nonetheless, the psychological deterioration of the man is well done. Unlike the all's-well-that-ends-well junk you expect from hollywood, it is quite tragic, esp. with the fiancee, who must continually push the military to be honest with her and places herself in the middle of the action to stay close to her man. This makes it a cut above most monster flicks. There is also humor in his rampage in Las Vegas, where he likes the outsized casino effects and even tries to grab a women he spies bathing on a fourth story hotel bathroom.Recommended.