Post by Calenture on Dec 4, 2009 3:46:30 GMT
The Colossus of New York (1958)
Director: Eugène Lourié
Writers: Willis Goldbeck (story)
Thelma Schnee (writer)
Release Date: June 1958 (USA)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Tagline: "Towering above the skyline ~ an indestructible creature whose eyes rain death and destruction!"
"Jeremy Spensser, genius humanitarian, is killed in an accident just after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. His father William, a brilliant brain surgeon, works on the body in secret before burial; later revealing to his other son Henry that he has the brain on life support and hopes to encase it in a robot body! The resulting being is large, strong, and develops many strange powers. Initially it has Jeremy's gentle personality but this, too, begins to change, and a year later it decides to end its long seclusion... Unusual piano music score."
Above synopis written by Rod Crawford {puffinus@u.washington.edu} and found here.
