The Amazing Colossal Man 1957  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Cast: Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, Larry Thor, James Seay, Frank Jenks, Russ Bender, June Jocelyn, Hank Patterson, Jimmy Cross, Jean Moorhead, Myron Cook, Scott Peters, Harry Raybould, Stanley Lachman
Army Lt. Col. Glenn Manning (Glenn Langan) is exposed to an atomic explosion and is severely burned but survives in the base hospital. However, the radiation has affected his cells, and Manning is growing larger and larger. By the time his fiancee, Carol (Cathy Downs), finds him, he is 60-feet tall and insane. After attacking and killing another officer and escaping, he is cornered and shot by the military at Boulder Dam and presumed dead–or is he? A sequel follows: "War of the Colossal Beast."
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The Fast and the Furious 1954  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: John Ireland, Edward Sampson
Cast: John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruce Carlisle, Marshall Bradford, Jean Howell, Iris Adrian, Larry Thor, Bruno VeSota, Robin Morse, Byrd Holland, Dick Pinner, Henry Rowland, "Snub" Pollard, Lou Place, Roger Corman
While running from a murder frame-up, Frank (John Ireland) meets Connie (Dorothy Malone) at a cafe. He takes Connie and her car on a cross-country race that will get him out of the country. But on the way, Connie works on him to turn himself in, and they fall in love. Eventually, Frank does the right thing and returns to clear his name.
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Five Guns West 1955 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Romance
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Mike Connors, R. Wright Campbell, Jonathan Haze, Paul Birch, Jack Ingram, James Stone, Larry Thor, Boyd "Red" Morgan, Jack Bohrer, Lionel C. Place, William Taylor, James Sikking
In this film that is Roger Corman's directorial debut, five convicted Southern prisoners are sent on a mission to nab a deserter and to rob a stagecoach gold shipment. They arrive at a stagecoach station that Shalee Jethro (Dorothy Malone) helps her father run, and they attack Shalee, but Govern Sturges (John Lund), who is really a Confederate soldier planted in the gang, saves Shalee.
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The Hunters 1958  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dick Powell
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Richard Egan, Robert Wagner, May Britt, Lee Philips, John Gabriel, Stacy Harris, Victor Sen Yung, John Doucette, Ralph Manza, Jay Jostyn, Vinnie De Carlo, Robert Reed, Nina Shipman, Larry Thor
A Korean War jet pilot falls in love with the wife of a cohort who crashed behind enemy lines. Now, his mission is to rescue the downed pilot.
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Machine-Gun Kelly 1958 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
aka: Machine Gun Kelly
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Lambert, Wally Campo, Frank DeKova, Connie Gilchrist, Michael Fox, Barboura Morris, Richard Devon, Lori Martin, George Archambeault, Robert Griffin, Larry Thor, Shirley Falls
Famous gangster Machine Gun Kelly (Charles Bronson), at the urging of his moll Flo (Susan Cabot), plots the kidnapping of an industrialist's daughter, but plans go awry when henchman Michael Fandango (Morey Amsterdam) makes a play for Flo. This angers Kelly who then kicks Fandango out of the mob. Fandango goes to the police as an informer, which allows police to follow Kelly's trail of destruction and capture him.
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| 1. The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
2. The Fast and the Furious (1954)
3. Five Guns West (1955)
4. The Hunters (1958)
5. Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
aka: Machine Gun Kelly
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