Blu-ray Release: The Colossus of New York

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Blu-ray Release Date: June 19, 2012
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films

The Colossus of New York movie scene

Tall, dark, handsome...and mechanical!: It's The Colossus of New York.

The Colossus of New York, the 1958 sci-fi thriller classic, takes its place in the pantheon of such great killer robot movies as The Terminator, RoboCop and Demon Seed. 

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.

Olive issued the movie on DVD in May, 2011.

There are no bonus features are on the Blu-ray, but the unrated film was newly mastered in high-definition from a 35mm archive print.

Check out the vintage trailer:

 

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.