THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK

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• Release Year: 1958
• Genre: Science-Fiction
• 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.
• Cast: John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton, Ross Martin, Charles Herbert, Ed Wolff, George Douglas, Roy Engel, Sam Harris, Larry Kerr, Harold Miller, Dick Nelson, Foster H. Phinney, Max Power, Jack Richardson, Court Shepard, Charles Sherlock, Bert Stevens, Eugène Lourié, Thelma Schnee
• Director: Eugène Lourié
• Runtime: 1:10
• Company: OliveFilms
• Media Format: Movie