{"id":33653,"date":"2023-08-29T05:48:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33653"},"modified":"2023-08-29T05:48:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:48:26","slug":"war-of-the-colossal-beast-1958-produced-and-directed-by-bert-i-gordon-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33653","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;War of the Colossal Beast&#8221; (1958) produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z082923zview_warcolosalbeast.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"765\" \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">War of the Colossal Beast <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">(1958)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Bert I. Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>George Worthing Yates,<\/strong> story by<strong> Bert I. Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Sally Fraser, Duncan &#8216;Dean&#8217; Parkin, Russ Bender, Jack Kosslyn<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Rico Alaniz<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> The towering terror from hell!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When it is learned that Glenn Manning aka The Amazing Colossal Man is alive, the Army captures him for further study.\u00a0 Manning was caught in the fallout from an atomic bomb test.\u00a0 Although Manning survived the blast, radiation caused him to grow 60 feet tall.\u00a0 Now horribly disfigured and brain damaged, Manning is a threat who may be beyond curing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>War of the Colossal Beast<\/em> is the sequel to <em>The Amazing Colossal Man<\/em> released a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The movie gets more exciting once the army captures the Amazing Colossal Man.\u00a0 A word of warning:\u00a0 Be very careful should you ever give a giant an injection.\u00a0 The scenes at the end outside the observatory are the best.\u00a0 The last minute or so of the film appears in color and the change is effective.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">War of the Colossal Beast <\/em><\/strong>(1958) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z082923zview_warcolosalbeast2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War of the Colossal Beast (1958) Director: Bert I. 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