The Amazing Colossal Man
| The Amazing Colossal Man | |
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Theatrical release poster
by Albert Kallis |
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| Directed by | Bert I. Gordon |
| Produced by | Bert I. Gordon Samuel Z. Arkoff James H. Nicholson |
| Written by |
Mark Hanna Bert I. Gordon George Worthing Yates (uncredited) |
| Based on | novel The Nth Man by Homer Eon Flint (uncredited) |
| Starring |
Glenn Langan Cathy Downs William Hudson |
| Music by | Albert Glasser |
| Cinematography | Joseph F. Biroc |
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Production
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Malibu Productions
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| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Running time
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80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $848,000 (US) |
The Amazing Colossal Man (aka The Colossal Man) is a 1957 black-and-white science fiction film, directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Glenn Langan. It was released in 1957 on a double bill with The Cat Girl (1957). The film revolves around a man who grows to over 60 feet tall as the result of an atomic accident. It is an uncredited adaptation of the 1928 Homer Eon Flint short novel The Nth Man.
During the 1960s the title was syndicated to television by American International Television. Both The Amazing Colossal Man and its sequel, War of the Colossal Beast (1958) appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
An early morning test explosion of the first atomic plutonium bomb is planned at a military site in Desert Rock, Nevada. When the chain reaction for the charge fails its cycle and does not detonate as expected, Lt. Col. Glenn Manning (Glenn Langan) receives orders to keep his men in the protective trench, as an explosion is still imminent, but its timing is now unknown. Moments later, an unidentified small civilian aircraft crash-lands near the bomb site, and Glenn leaps from the trench and runs into the detonation area to rescue the pilot. Once in the detonation area, the bomb goes off, and Glenn is caught in an atomic blast that burns him and immediately disintegrates his clothes and hair.
Surviving the blast—but suffering from third-degree burns over almost his entire body—Manning is treated by specialist Dr. Paul Linstrom (William Hudson) and military scientist Dr. Eric Coulter (Larry Thor) at the base hospital. Glenn's fiancée Carol Forrest (Cathy Downs), who was supposed to have been married to him that very night in Las Vegas), anxiously awaits a prognosis...but Linstrom refrains from telling her that the consensus is that Glenn will not survive.
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