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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).
American International Pictures released the film on June 30, 1958 as a double feature with War of the Colossal Beast. [1] The film was rushed into production by AIP and Bert I. Gordon to capitalize on the popular success of Universal-International's The Incredible Shrinking Man, released the previous year in 1957. [2]
Year Title Role Notes 1958: War of the Colossal Beast: 1958: How to Make a Monster: Lab Technician: 1959: The Miracle: Courier: Uncredited 1961: Sea Hunt: Season 4, Episode 10
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 ...
Bert I. Gordon: The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Attack of the Puppet People (1958), War of the Colossal Beast (1958; the sequel to The Amazing Colossal Man) and Earth vs. the Spider (1958) Burt Topper: Hell Squad (1958), Tank Commandos (1959) and Diary of a High School Bride (1959) Edward Bernds: High School Hellcats (1958).
Attack of the Puppet People (1958, uncredited) (created the giant-sized props & Dr. Jekyll costume) [5] War of the Colossal Beast (1958) (tiny-sized props from Amazing Colossal Man re-used) Earth vs. the Spider (1958) aka The Spider (designed the two corpses and the giant spider leg)
The Spider) is an independently made 1958 American black-and-white science fiction horror film produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon, who also provided the plot upon which the screenplay by George Worthing Yates and Laszlo Gorog was based. Though the title suggests a global crisis, the film focuses entirely on a small town being terrorized by ...