- The COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK
- Film (1958). William Alland Productions/Paramount. Dir Eugene Lourie, starring John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Charles Herbert, Ed Wolff. Screenplay Thelma Schnee, based on a story by Willis Goldbeck. 70 mins. B/w.A curious little film about a man killed in an accident whose brain is transferred by his scientist father into an 8ft (2.4m) ROBOT body. Without a human body his mind both loses all compassion and resents it in others; hence he decides to destroy good guys at the UN. But his lingering humanity asserts itself and he asks his son (who doesn't know who he is) to turn him off. TCONY has been praised, but most see it as a routine potboiler. Shooting took eight days, and its director claims he can barely remember making it.PN
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