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  Movie Reviews: Asteroid; MST3K: The Amazing Colossal Man
Colonel Glen Manning accidentally gets more than the minimum daily requirement of plutonium during a U.S. Army bomb test, causing him to outgrow his skivvies, his hospital room and a circus tent.
He's bigger than a barn's broadside, but even though he takes a monster-large in Underoos, there's still plenty of room for 'bot bon mots.
While Tom Servo taunts, "How do your chromosomes work when they're as big as stepladders?" Crow advises, "Hey, don't laugh Glen, we're on a fault line." and Joel solemnly intones, "No man is a Three Mile Island." Riff quick and carry a big schtik.
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 The Amazing Colossal Man -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Langan plays a soldier in the U.S. Army who, following an inadvertent exposure to plutonium radiation, abnormally grows into 50 (A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard) ft.
The movie was co-written by (additional info and facts about Mark Hanna) Mark Hanna, who also wrote the companion-movie (additional info and facts about Attack of the 50 Foot Woman) Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958).
Both The Amazing Colossal Man and War of the Colossal Beast were later featured on the television series (additional info and facts about Mystery Science Theater 3000) Mystery Science Theater 3000.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_amazing_colossal_man.htm   (209 words)

  
 The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
Tiny man vs. spider is a mismatch, but one that favors the man.
These facts were known to our ancestors, who used this aspect of scaling to gruesome effect--a common strategy during medieval sieges was to take a carcass of a horse, let it ripen for a few days in the sun, and then catapult it over the walls of the besieged town.
The protagonist in Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman (1958) is only half the size of the Amazing Colossal Man, but she also pushes the skeletal safety factor beyond reasonable limits.
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 The Amazing Colossal Man
In true 50’s style, the army has sent Manning’s regiment (or whatever unit a lieutenant colonel commanded in 1957) to stand in trenches out in the desert while they set off an A-bomb not far away.
You can see it coming a mile away-- before Manning can reach the downed aircraft, the bomb goes off, catching him not only out of the trench, but without his dark glasses on either.
You just don’t recover from them, and when Manning’s fiancee, Carol (Cathy Downs, from The She-Creature and Missile to the Moon), comes to the hospital, the doctors essentially tell her as much.
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 Amazon.com: The Amazing Colossal Man: Video: Glenn Langan,Cathy Downs,William Hudson,Larry Thor,James Seay,Frank ...
Glenn Manning, Cathy Downs as Carol Forrest, William Hudson as Dr. Paul Linstrom, Larry Thor as Maj. Eric Coulter, MD, James Seay as Col. Hallock, Frank Jenks as Truck Driver, Russ Bender as Richard Kingman, Hank Patterson as Henry, Jimmy Cross as Sergeant at reception desk, June Jocelyn as Nurse Wilson...
But on the other hand, the Brains were (in my opinion) approaching the top of their form here in the third season, and 'The Amazing Colossal Man' is one of the proofs of that.
L Gordon's "The Amazing Colossal Man" is a cheap, american sci-fi movie centering on the repercussion a military man faces after being exposed to radiation, namely he cant...
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 MST3K Episode 309 - The Amazing Colossal Man
Along their journey they encounter the personification of Evil, Robin Hood, King Agememmnon (played by Sean Connery), and are chased down by a giant (the part The Amazing Colossal man claims to have played).
It seems funny to us that a man who has based his career on magic tricks and parlor games is questioning the validity of hypnosis.
He always played the villain in any film he was in, and his own films were always overextravagent and overlong, his longest film running 9 hours.
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Topps/American International Pictures Inc. married the monsters and trading cards craze of the mid-sixties with this celebration of the lighter side of being a beast; creature of the night, alien or just plain ol' eternally damned.
The fl and white cards featured scenes from movies like Konga, The Amazing Colossal Man, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Konga and The Amazing Shrinking Man with a ludicrous Laugh-In type one-liner on the bottom and a joke on the back.
The cards were sold in 10-cent clear cello packages - 12 cards to a pack.
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 The Amazing Colossal Man - Rotten Tomatoes
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 The Amazing Colossal Man Detailed Movie Reviews
Glenn Manning (Langan) runs out from his shelter to save whoever's in the plane and gets caught in the bomb blast.
He shields his eyes, but he's badly burned over the rest of his body and loses most of his vital fluids.
When both have been replenished, Manning starts to grow -- at the rate of 8 to 10 feet a day!
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Movie Plot: A man grows to giant size after getting too close to a nuclear blast.
On the SOL: Crow and Tom won't let Joel into their cardboard fort / the crew tries to think of things to do if they were 50 feet tall.
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