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Director:
Bert I. Gordon
Writers:
Mark Hanna (screenplay) and
Bert I. Gordon (screenplay)
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Release Date:
10 March 1958 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
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! more
Plot:
Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast at Camp Desert Rock. Though burned over 90% of his body... more | add synopsis
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Atomic Bombs Away more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Glenn Langan ... Lt. Col. Glenn Manning (as Glen Langan)
Cathy Downs ... Carol Forrest
William Hudson ... Dr. Paul Linstrom
Larry Thor ... Maj. Eric Coulter, MD
James Seay ... Col. Hallock
Frank Jenks ... Truck Driver
Russ Bender ... Richard Kingman (as Russell Bender)
Hank Patterson ... Henry
Jimmy Cross ... Sergeant at Reception Desk
June Jocelyn ... Nurse Wilson
Stanley Lachman ... Lt. Cline
Harry Raybould ... MP at Main Gate
Jean Moorhead ... Woman in Bathtub
Scott Peters ... Sgt. Lee Carter
Myron Cook ... Capt. Thomas
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Amazing Nth Man (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:PG | USA:Approved | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating)
Filming Locations:
Boulder City, Nevada, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
American International Pictures released this in a double feature with The Cat Girl (1957). more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the Colossal Man is rampaging along the strip, four cops standing by two police cars fire at him but when the giant tears the cowboy from atop the Pioneer Club and throws it at them, the cars are gone and there is a crowd of people around the cops. more
Quotes:
Manning: [reading newspaper] "Man Lives Through Plutonium Blast"
[laughs cynically]
Manning: They call THIS living?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Fear in the Dark (1991) (TV) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Atomic Bombs Away, 10 May 2002
Author: David M. Duke (editdave43@aol.com) from New York City

Burt I. Gordon's "The Amazing Colossal Man" was the first sci-fi film I saw as a kid that actually scared me. But it wasn't the effect of a bald Col. Glenn Manning running around Las Vegas that I found frightening; it was the actual atomic bomb test-blast footage I found so horrific. At the age of six, seeing houses blown like matchsticks into blazing debris was enough to cause nightmares. The same footage (recently restored by Peter Kuran for the "explosive" documentary "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie") can still sends shivers down the spine of any self-respecting anti-nuker.

"The Amazing Colossal Man" still ranks as one of the better b-grade drive-in movies. It is unintentionally funny, full of impossible science and very entertaining. The cast does their best with the material (from a script by George Worthing Yates) but I suspect no one took the project very seriously, least of all Mr. Gordon. It is also highlighted by another thunderous Albert Glasser score.

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