Before "Showgirls," This Was The Greatest Vegas Moment In Film History!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

       
                             Would you believe, girls, someone was just recently asking me about "The Amazing Colossal Man," a film I have not thought much about, since I was a child??????  This is a cheesy AIP offering from !957, a sort of gender counterpart, to "Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman," except Glenn Langan  is no match for Allison Hayes, and this film does not have its wit!

                               Langan plays Glenn Manning, who survives a plutonium bombing on a military base.  He begins to grow to great size, like Nancy Archer in 'Woman,' but, unlike Hayes, Langan's body does not keep up with its biology--they are trying to get more scientific here--and so since the heart and circulatory system does not keep pace with his body, his brain is being deprived of needed oxygen--and he is going slowly insane!!!!!!!!

                              But, darlings, what better place to go insane than Las Vegas????????  The scene where the giant Manning walks up to the Dunes, and we see the Sands, with the Danny Thomas marquee, is priceless--evocative of an era!!!!!!!!  The other bad thing about Glenn here is, while he may be big and strong, he is not a bit hot!!!!!!!!!!  At least Alison Hayes had some glamour to her!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                Maybe they should have paired the Colossal Man with the Fifty Foot Woman!!!!!!
Now,  that would have been something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                  Or how about Dorothy Provine as "The 30 Foot Bride Of Candy Rock???????"

                                   Better than "Leaving Las Vegas," darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!