The Giant Gila Monster

The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
Director: Ray Kellogg
Tagline: « The Biggest Terror Ever Unleashed on the Screen! »
Actors:
Chase Winstead
Sheriff Jeff
Old Man Harris
Mr. Wheeler
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rating:  vote average (4’735 votes)
Quotes: « Sheriff Jeff: I ask you what time it is and you tell me how to build a clock, just answer the question! » « Sheriff Jeff: Have you heard the reports of a "giant lizard"? » « Mr. Wheeler: Yes, but it's just not possible. » « Sheriff Jeff: Well, why not? There have been giants before! » « Sheriff Jeff: *What* did you hit him with? » « Chase Winstead: My brand new, 100% completed hot rod. » « Sheriff Jeff: You'd have had to start in the next county to get up enough momentum to do that to him. » « Chase Winstead: Not with 4 quarts of nitro glycerin riding with me. » « Mr. Wheeler: You drove across that rough field carrying nitro? » « Chase Winstead: Yes sir! » « Sheriff Jeff: Do you realize what could have happened? » « Chase Winstead: It did. I lost my car! » « Sheriff Jeff: Don't worry about that, the railroad will be *glad* to buy you a new one. »
Trailer: Official Trailer
Runtime:74 minutes
Plots: A giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community and a heroic teenager attempts to destroy the creature. A couple of teenagers are reported missing in a small Texas town, and it is thought they eloped. Sheriff Jeff turns to his friend Clarence Winstead, a garage mechanic and leader of a hot-rod gang, for help. After a series of tragic motor accidents, it becomes apparent that a giant Gila monster is roaming the area depleting the town of its citizens and visitors, including two hot-rodding teens, and planning to attend the BIG record-hop party. A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry 50-foot-long Gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard chomps on motorists and train passengers before descending on the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out.

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