Giant from the Unknown
Giant from the Unknown is a 1958 horror film released by Astor Pictures. The film stars Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, and Buddy Baer. Baer, who played Vargas, the Giant in this film, also played a giant in Jack and the Beanstalk 1952, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The film was featured in the 1996 show Nightmare Theaters late night ChillORama Horror Show.The film was shot in San Bernardino National Forest. Richard E. Cunha directedfeature films and Giant from the unknown was one of the four six day double feature special that he is remembered for. The double features were for his company Screencraft, with double features such as Frankensteins Daughter, Missile to the moon and She demons, all released on he same year. The film was released on DVD on October 24, 2000. The makeup effects were done by Jack Pierce, known for the classic visages of Boris Karloffs Frankenstein 1931, The Mummy 1932 and Lon Chaney Jr.s The Wolf Man 1941.
The film has no studio background, but real locations filmed at Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Dam and the town of Fawnskin, California, located 100 miles from Los Angeles. Shot indays And the remainingdays were used for the interiors back in Hollywood. According to Crutcher, he was not there for the final fight of the movie with Kemmer and Baer but it was shot anyway without realizing that the camera shutter wasnt on so the whole shot was lost. The crew had no time to film it again so the sequence seen in the film was done very quickly. Richard E. Cunha made a deal with the Lodges operators to have their sign posted on the car door featured prominently, in exchange, the cast stayed for free. Also, at the beginning of the movie crew members featured as extras.Giant from the Unknown holds a lowon Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 510 on the Internet Movie Database IMDB. American film director, producer, actor and editor Joe Dante described this film, on his YouTube channel Trailers from Hell, as The ads for Giant quote It came from another world and today it really does, the vanished world of blackandwhite dull features that I for one really miss. ........
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