War of the Colossal Beast

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Category: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Release Year: 1958
Country: USA
Runtime: 69
Rating: 7.4 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

The towering terror from hell!

Writing by: Bert I. Gordon - (story)
George Worthing Yates - (screenplay)

Produced by: Samuel Z. Arkoff - executive producer
Bert I. Gordon - producer
James H. Nicholson - executive producer

Cast: Sally Fraser - Joyce Manning
Roger Pace - Maj. Mark Baird
Duncan Dean Parkin - Col. Glenn Manning (as Dean Parkin)
Russ Bender - Dr. Carmichael
Rico Alaniz - Sgt. Luis Murillo
George Becwar - John Swanson
Robert Hernandez - Miguel
Charles Stewart - Capt. Harris
June Jocelyn - Mrs. Edwards
John McNamara - Neurologist
Loretta Nicholson - Joan

Music: Albert Glasser
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Plot Outline: Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colosasal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.
Plot: A mysterious series of food truck robberies makes government officials doubt that the 60-foot tall Colossal Man is dead. He is discovered in a desolate mountain range in Mexico, insane and horribly disfigured. The military drugs him and transports him back to America where he promptly escapes and wreaks havoc on a city.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Michal Koban ... legal counsel animals

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Although Glenn is supposed to be 60 feet tall, in the final scene, when he reaches over the Griffith Observatory, he almost touches Joyce. The actual distance between Glenn and Joyce would be at lest several hundred feet.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
The final scene of the film, lasting less than one minute, is in color.
Throughout the movie Col. Manning says only one word: the name of his sister, "Joyce".
American-International changed to title to a more dramatic-sounding "War of the Colossal Beast" and avoided mentioning in the ad campaign that it was a sequel to an earlier film.