leeper@ahuta.UUCP (m.leeper) (02/20/85)
REFERENCES: <607@mhuxt.UUCP> >Since everyone is stuck on "WORST SCI-FI" flicks, I thought >I'd mention one that I really liked. If you really liked it, it isn't "WORST SCI-FI". At least for you. >Anyone remember "The Colossal Man"? You are talking about the Bert I. Gordon film THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN. It is one of Gordon't best, but that doesn't say very much. Not really very good overall. >About a man who survives an atomic blast and >starts growing larger and larger--eventually he reaches 60' >tall... Then these >scientists (one of whom was his main squeeze, of course) Not the way I remember it. They just explain it to her. >try to find a cure and rig up a huge hypodermic needle which >they thrust into his foot. > In these days of thinner disposable hypodermic needles we tend to forget how terrifying and painful shots were in the fifties. This scene, and the conclusion where he picks up the needle and throws it like a dart right though one of the scientists is by far the most haunting of the film. >Some silly parts, but I've always liked this one. Te gustibus non disputandum. >(He wore some really cute briefs if I remember correct.) :-) Te gustibus non disputandum. The sequel with another actor in the part of Glenn Manning, the colossal man, was called WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!ahuta!leeper
al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) (02/28/85)
Dover sells a book called "Science Fiction and Horror Movie Posters
in Full Color" which has 44 fairly large (10'' by 14'') posters
in it of movies such as "Tobor the Great", "The Mole People",
"The Amazing Colossal Man", "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman",
"Day of the Triffids", etc.
Note on Sexist Cliche in Movie Posters: 15 of these posters have a lady in
distress wearing a low-cut dress being carried by one of the monsters.
The women look practically interchangeable except for the color
of their dresses-- Same position, exposure of legs, expression, etc.
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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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didn't I see you at the zombie jamboree?