The Amazing Colossal Man

• 1957
• 80 min
• Science Fiction
• Adventure
• Thriller
• US

Directed by Bert I. Gordon

A decorated soldier becomes the deadliest thing in the Nevada desert, and everyone he loves is in the blast radius. Lt. Col. Glenn Manning sprints toward a downed plane on a test range and catches the full flash of a plutonium bomb. He survives, burned and baffled, then begins to grow—foot by foot, past every medical explanation, his reason slipping away with his humanity. His fiancée and the Army race for answers as the giant's patience runs out. Fifties atomic anxiety, played with a surprisingly straight face.