I have always loved this movie and have owned the Image DVD for years, and this is a great, great upgrade.
Robert Lansing stars as Scott Nelson, a somewhat troubled man who is working to develop an indestructible metal called Cargonite. His brother Tony Nelson (James Congdon) is also a scientist and he's working on melding atoms of two separate items together.
Tony burns down the building where he is working and is fired from his position. He travels to Scott's home and stays with him for a while after Scott's fiancee Linda Davis (Lee Meriwether) insists.
Scott perfects Cargonite and finds all of the credit for it has been stolen by his employer Dr. Theodore Carter (Edgar Stehli). Tony shows Scott a pencil that he has managed to mingle the atoms with a piece of steel. But the catch is Tony believes that his mind was so expanded that his mind made the experiment a success, but he has been unable to duplicate it.
Linda is fallinmg in love with Tony and this drives Scott to try his brother experiment. It works, and the scene where Scott's hand is caught in the metal piece and he cannot get it out is painful just watching it.
The experiment is out of control and Scott can walk thru any solid object. He also must kill people to obtain their life force to stay young. Soon Scott is terrorizing the entire city and Tony helps the police bring this to an end.
However, the ending is left open as we really never know if Scott has been killed or not. This is a well acted and well directed film. Irving Yeaworth also helmed "The Blob" for producer Jack Harris.
The Blu-ray features an interview with Harris and Lee Merriwether and quite a few trailers for other great movies from Kino. There is also a radio spot for 4D Man which is pretty cool.
It was great to see this film again, and as I stated earlier, what a great presentation. The rest of the cast includes Patty Duke, Robert Strauss and Guy Raymond.
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