(There are Spoilers) The fact that the movie "Monster A Go-Go" is so disjointed and indescribable is that It took some four years to complete. When money ran out for the futuristic outer space epic in the spring of 1961 the film was shelved and it wasn't until four years later that it was finally completed. By them most of the original cast was either dead unlivable or just had better things to do and were not at all interested in being in the movie.
In what seemed to be the director's cut of the film we have this astronaut Frank Douglas make a crash landing in his space capsule that results in the helicopter pilot, Jim Taylor, who's to pick him up end up dead from radiation poisoning. The average size Douglas has grown to be 10 feet tall from his trip in space as well as having lost his mind in not knowing who, his superiors at NASA, to report to after he landed on earth. This has Douglas slump around the countryside, as well as in nearby Chicago, killing a number of people, by omitting radiation, who just happen to be within as little of five feet away from him! We have somewhat of a plot in that Dr. Henry Logan's brother, who are both played by the same actor, Conrad had in fact found the mixed up spaceman and locked him up in his laboratory pumping Douglas up with large doses of anti-radiation drugs in order to cure him from his deadly radioactive infection. This all goes nowhere with Douglas getting more and more radioactive as the anti-radiation drugs seem to have the exact opposite effect on him.
***SPOILERS*** Just when everything looks hopeless with Douglas about to annihilate the entire city of Chicago with its 5 million inhabitants the film changes course into a Twilight Zone like ending with Douglas, off camera, now back to normal after being picked up by a US Navy rescue crew in the Mid-Atlantic! We're, those of us still awake in the audience, told by the movie's narrator that what we just saw up until then, Douglas' rescue, was just something that can't be explained, like the movie, by modern science and we should just take it as fact, or Gospel truth, since were not that advanced, through the evolutionary process, to fully understand it!
You can take everything in the movie with a gain of slat in that it was very difficult to make heads or tails of it's plot, in that it took four years and two different sets of cast members to make, but its title-"Monster A Go-Go"-was just too much to swallow. Not only didn't we see the monster-Frank Douglas-participate in any go-go dances even though there was a disco scene in the movie but we only got to see the films major star, whom it was titled after, the monster him or itself- played by 7 foot 6 inch tall Henry Hite-for less then 15 seconds in the almost 70 minute movie! That by far less then any of the other mostly uncredited characters in the film!
In what seemed to be the director's cut of the film we have this astronaut Frank Douglas make a crash landing in his space capsule that results in the helicopter pilot, Jim Taylor, who's to pick him up end up dead from radiation poisoning. The average size Douglas has grown to be 10 feet tall from his trip in space as well as having lost his mind in not knowing who, his superiors at NASA, to report to after he landed on earth. This has Douglas slump around the countryside, as well as in nearby Chicago, killing a number of people, by omitting radiation, who just happen to be within as little of five feet away from him! We have somewhat of a plot in that Dr. Henry Logan's brother, who are both played by the same actor, Conrad had in fact found the mixed up spaceman and locked him up in his laboratory pumping Douglas up with large doses of anti-radiation drugs in order to cure him from his deadly radioactive infection. This all goes nowhere with Douglas getting more and more radioactive as the anti-radiation drugs seem to have the exact opposite effect on him.
***SPOILERS*** Just when everything looks hopeless with Douglas about to annihilate the entire city of Chicago with its 5 million inhabitants the film changes course into a Twilight Zone like ending with Douglas, off camera, now back to normal after being picked up by a US Navy rescue crew in the Mid-Atlantic! We're, those of us still awake in the audience, told by the movie's narrator that what we just saw up until then, Douglas' rescue, was just something that can't be explained, like the movie, by modern science and we should just take it as fact, or Gospel truth, since were not that advanced, through the evolutionary process, to fully understand it!
You can take everything in the movie with a gain of slat in that it was very difficult to make heads or tails of it's plot, in that it took four years and two different sets of cast members to make, but its title-"Monster A Go-Go"-was just too much to swallow. Not only didn't we see the monster-Frank Douglas-participate in any go-go dances even though there was a disco scene in the movie but we only got to see the films major star, whom it was titled after, the monster him or itself- played by 7 foot 6 inch tall Henry Hite-for less then 15 seconds in the almost 70 minute movie! That by far less then any of the other mostly uncredited characters in the film!