I really love this movie poster. Sometimes I wish I could have been a kid in the 50s and 60s only so I could have seen these movie posters and watched the movies back when they were first released. I would have had a blast. Luckily my rampant immaturity allows me to enjoy watching these movies with a lot of the enthusiasm I would have had as a kid.
So this movie is about a string of robberies that happen near the U.S. and Mexican border. A woman comes to the police to enquire about the robberies because she fears her brother might be the robber. Her brother suffered radiation poisoning that caused him to be deformed and to grow to the size of a giant (stupid government, always giving people nd animals radiation poisoning in these movies).
This movie is a sequel to another Bert I. Gordon movie called "The Amazing Colossal Man." It takes a lot of potshots at the government and the military and how they like to "make monsters" but don't want to take care of those same "monsters" once they return home. In this movie the guy is a literal monster, but the same accusation gets tossed at the military for sending men off to war then not wanting to help them heal and reintegrate themselves into life once the wars are over. It's kind of sad because the "colossal man" was just a soldier serving his country when he was injured and contaminated with radiation that mutated him into a monster.
This movie is silly, and the effects are cheesy, but the story does have some interesting and even touching moments. I felt bad for the woman who had to see her brother turned into a monster, and the special effects on his deformed face weren't bad, especially for the time this movie was made. Overall it wasn't a bad watch, though it does drag a lot with pointless scenes that serve no purpose other than to pad the running time. It might have worked better ad a short than a full movie.
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