Tall, dark, handsome...and mechanical!: The Colossus of New York finally comes to DVD.
The Colossus of New York, the 1958 sci-fi thriller classic that can rightfully takes its place in the pantheon of such great killer robot movies as The Terminator, RoboCop and Demon Seed, finally arrived on DVD
Written by Thelma Schnee (TV’s Science Fiction Theatre) from Willis Goldbeck’s story, the intriguing film turns on the accidental death of a brilliant scientist (Ross Martin), a tragedy that prompts his lunatic father (Otto Kruger) and brother (John Baragrey) to transplant the dead man’s brain onto the body of a giant robot. The operation is successful, but the Colossus Robot mourns for his wife and child and doesn’t want to be the guinea pig in his father’s psychotic project and starts displaying homicidal behaviors.
Incidentally, the movie’s director, Eugene Lourie, had one helluva career leading up to Colossus, most notably as art director on Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight (1952) and Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion (1937) and Rules of the Game (1939). As a director, Lourie also helmed such genre favorites as The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and Gorgo (1961)
No bonus features are on the DVD, but the film was newly mastered in high-definition from a 35mm archive print.
Check out the vintage trailer:
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Good news! But, if they are re-mastering it in HD, it would be nice if they also released it on Blu-Ray rather than just DVD. Most true collectors now own Blu-Ray players as well as DVD players.
I agree with you, Jack, but not completely. I think that lovers of older genre fare–B movies, smaller studio titles, noirs and other stuff fans have discovered on late night TV or in rep houses on lousy prints–are most interested in having the title in ANY digital form. When I talk to reps at Olive Films and the studio archive divisions, they tell me that the lesser, cult titles do much better business on DVD than Blu-ray. At least, at this point. Then again, the studios and suppliers want to make a buck, so they’ll probalby get around to Blu-ray after they’ve wholly exploited the standard DVD business.