The Colossus of New York (1958)
Released: 01 Jun 1958
Runtime: 70 min
Rated: UNRATED
Director: Eugène Lourié
Writer(s): Thelma Schnee (screenplay), Willis Goldbeck (story)
Actors: John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton
IMDB Ratings: 6.0
Plot: 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.
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