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War of the Colossal Beast (a.k.a. Revenge of the Colossal Man and The Colossal Beast) is a 1958 black-and-white science fiction film, written, produced, and directed by Bert I. Gordon for his Carmel Productions, and starring Dean Parkin, Sally Fraser, and Roger Pace. [1]
Fraser eventually became typecast in low budget 1950s sci-fi films. She played a wife possessed by aliens in the Roger Corman film It Conquered the World (1956), the sister of the titular monster in War of the Colossal Beast (1958), and a mother protecting her baby in Earth vs. the Spider (1958).
Bert Ira Gordon (September 24, 1922 – March 8, 2023) was an American filmmaker and visual effects artist. He is best known for screenwriting and producing and/or directing science fiction and horror B-movies such as King Dinosaur (1955), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Earth vs. the Spider (1958), Village of the Giants (1965), and Empire of the Ants (1977).
War of the Colossal Beast: Bert I. Gordon: Sally Fraser, Dean Parkin, Roger Pace: United States: Horror War of the Satellites: Roger Corman: Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Eric Sinclair: United States: Horror [9]
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) War of the Colossal Beast (1958) Giant from the Unknown (1958) Teenage Cave Man (1958) Earth vs. the Spider (1958) High School Confidential (1958) Night of the Quarter Moon (1959) The Boy and the Pirates (1960) Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) [3] The Cremators (1972) [4] The Naked Monster (2005)
Drive-in advertisement from 1958 for Attack of the Puppet People and co-feature, War of the Colossal Beast. The film was shot under the title The Fantastic Puppet People. [5] Gordon said the title was changed to make the film more salable, since he targeted it primarily for teenagers. [3]
Duncan Parkin also played Col. Manning in the War of the Colossal Beast (1958), the sequel to The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), basically playing the same disfigured giant in both films. [5] Production effects in The Cyclops were limited to backscreen projection, rudimentary matte work, and incorporating large images into the scenes. In the film ...
War and Peace: 1967: Sergei Bondarchuk [1] War Comes to America: 1945: Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak [1] The War Game: 1966: Peter Watkins [4] [1] War Hunt: 1962: Denis Sanders [1] The War Is Over: 1966: Alain Resnais [1] War of the Colossal Beast: 1958: Bert I. Gordon [6] The War of the Worlds: 1953: Byron Haskin [4] [1] Warning Sign: 1985 ...