![]() ![]() To compensate for the lack of depth and complexity in the storyline, director Lourié imparts a graphic fairytale simplicity to its fairly innovative monster, an eight-foot cyborg with more than a few similarities to the sci-fi masterpiece RoboCop made thirty years later. Produced on a small scale, The Colossus of New York is an effective monster film whose immediate appeal seems limited to children. At first glance this reworking of ideas from Frankenstein and The Golem would seem to have big possibilities: the director is the talented Eugène Lourié, a world-class art director and special effects consultant who directed Ray Harryhausen's breakthrough picture as well as the impressive Technicolor giant monster film Gorgo (expected later this year in remastered Blu-ray from VCI). Alland accepted a more hopeful offer from Paramount, which led to a pair of sci-fi efforts as cheap as anything he'd done at Universal, The Space Children and The Colossus of New York. It Came from Outer Space and The Creature from the Black Lagoon were imaginative productions given a boost by 3D and impressive technical effects, but only a couple of years later Alland's The Deadly Mantis and The Mole People weren't much better than the cut-price Poverty Row efforts of the late forties. In addition to a new HD disc of Paramount's unusual Sci-fi thriller The Space Children (to be reviewed at DVD Savant on June 16), they're reissuing its original double bill partner, this popular tale of a forlorn, maladjusted cyborg.Įx- Orson Welles assistant William Alland produced almost all of Universal-International's science fiction hits of the 1950s. Written by Willis Goldbeck, Thelma SchneeĪfter taking major steps into the Blu-ray realm, Olive Films is reaching back to upgrade some of its more popular DVD titles to the higher-resolution format. Ĭolossus designed by Charles Gemora, Ralph Jester Starring John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton, Ross Martin, Charles Herbert, Ed Wolff. 1958 / B&W / 1:78 enhanced widescreen / 70 min.
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