The Atomic Age's Greatest Nightmare: A Cruel Woman
1955, USA, Black & White, 83 minutes
Directed by Lance Wooton. Written by Tay Cropper
Starring Sterling Barfellow, Barbara Foxhill, Cal Ashwood
Lloyd Tolliver is a brilliant but meek atomic scientist whose lab does weapons research for the military. So focused is he on his work that when his dashing business partner begins an affair with his wife he limply stands aside so that it doesn't interfere with the research. But when the calculating couple steal the research money and escape to Los Angeles, Tolliver's switch is flipped. He injects himself with Genetic Radiation (aka Gen-Rad), grows to the size of a modest office building and goes on a revengenous rampage. He is eventually stopped by Navy Frogmen who lay mines in his left ventricle.
Watch out for – chaos at Soviet Science Headquarters when as they watch, via satellite, America's "Gen-Rad Super Beast" running amok. Never have so many ham actors run into the same wall in mock terror.
Quote – "He wanted to give his life to science, and now his pickled organs will educate the young in science museums across America."
Reviewed by R.P. Thunderdunk
