Poster on linen THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK ORIGINAL 1958 US1sht 27x41 LINENBACKED

Original 1958 Theatrical USA One Sheet on Linen in VERY GOOD+ Condition, nicely backed. Natural, age appropriate edgewear and fold wear. Minor corner curl in linen. Linen border is one to two inches outside poster border. Beautiful poster with sci-fi, horror imaery. Directed by Eugene Lourie, music by VAN CLEAVE. TAGLINE : Towering above the skyline an indestructible creature whose eyes rain death and destruction! - A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results. 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...

CAST includes John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Ross Martin, Robert Hutton, Charles Herbert, Roy Engel, Ed Wolff. BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : The Colossus costume was eight feet tall, weighed 160 pounds and was made from burlap, plastic, rubber and fine chicken wire. Inside, there were batteries, cables, air tanks and oxygen tubes. It took stuntman Ed Wolff (who was 7 foot tall) 40 minutes to climb in and out of his Colossus costume so a special rack was built where he could rest whilst still in costume in between shots.

The film features an unusually restrained piano score by Van Cleave. This was not so much an artistic choice but brought about by a musicians' strike.

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