Sometime
when I was 9 or 10, I developed a brief obsession with Eugene Lourie’s The Colossus of New York. That may not
sound so odd now, but it was quite odd at the time; I wasn’t particularly into
schlocky sci-fi movies as a kid (though I did once watch Revenge of the Creature so I could catch a glimpse of young Clint
Eastwood). For some reason, I’d seen a magazine article (possibly in Starlog) that featured a still from Colossus, and the image stuck with me. Soon
enough, the film showed up on TV. I recorded it and basically couldn’t stop
watching it for a few weeks. And then, I did stop. And I didn’t really think
about the movie again* until recently, when a new, very nice-looking Blu-Ray of it arrived from
Olive Films.
