Great Science Fiction Classic Finally Comes To DVD!
Finally, this classic gem from 1958 is getting a proper DVD release. This is one of my all-time favorite science fiction flicks.
Ross Martin plays a brilliant scientist who is tragically killed in an accident at an airport. His father, a brilliant brain surgeon played by Otto Kruger, can't deal with his son's death, so removes his brain and keeps it alive in a basement laboratory. He then enlists the aide of his other son to build a robotic body in which to house the brain. Once encased in steel, the brain continues to function - dangerously.
When I was a kid back in the '70s, this was one of those movies I had to watch every time it aired. I couldn't get enough of it. The robot in this movie is one of the coolest film robots ever. Plus the move has a very unique musical score. It's all piano but it is very effective. It more than captures the entire tragic aura of the story. I can't wait to get this DVD. Hopefully the transfer is magnificent. I'll update this...
rare creepy 50"s robot film
very unusual 50"s sci fi starring an early ross martin that somehow became a lost film for who knows why, for years no one could get a quality print, now at last a beautiful print in anamorphic fills the whole rectangular screen in proper ratio, no distortion, one of the most creepy sci fi robots ever created in my humble opinion,interesting story that goes beyond many "b" drive-in movies of its period,primative but dramatic special effects might even be interesting to a young student of sci fi film, an absolute pristine high quality print from "olive films"
thank you olive films, what a pleasure to watch.
review of disc, not film content
I'm not going to talk about this film's story. You can check IMDb for that-- or some of the other reviews here on Amazon. They cover that subject well.
This is only about the new DVD from Olive Films.
I received my long-awaited DVD of "Colossus/NY" yesterday (Aug.8) and played it last night. (I didn't buy it here;-- I pre-ordered mine from DeepDiscount.)
My only other copy of this film was a VHS tape, purchased from the now-defunct HellFire Video in New York City. They were the only folks who offered it, way back when.--
The source print that HellFire used was very poor. It was dark and muddy. It could sometimes be difficult to make out much of what was on screen, especially backgrounds.
I kept that tape, anyway, because it was all I had. "Colossus" rarely made it to TV, or I would have recorded my own copy (off TV) long ago.
Well....now I can toss that tape! The Olive Films DVD of the film isn't perfect, but it's very close! It's...
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