The Colossus of New York (1958)

Director
Eugène Lourié

Main cast
John Baragrey; Mala Powers; Otto Kruger; Robert Hutton; Ross Martin

Genres
Horror, Sci-Fi

Description
A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...


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