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‘Solely Hell might breed such an unlimited beast… solely God might destroy it!’
The Big Gila Monster is a 1959 American sci-fi horror movie a few large lizard that terrorises a rural Texas neighborhood; a heroic teenager makes an attempt to destroy the creature.

Directed by Ray Kellogg (The Killer Shrews) from a screenplay written by Jay Simms, based mostly on Kellogg’s story.

The film stars Don Sullivan (The Monster of Piedras Blancas; Teenage Zombies), Lisa Simone (Missile to the Moon), Fred Graham and Shug Fisher.

The movie’s price range was $138,000 and it was produced by Dallas drive-in chain proprietor Gordon McLendon who wished co-features for his essential sights.

The results included a dwell Mexican beaded lizard (not an precise Gila monster!) filmed on a scaled-down mannequin panorama.

Gila!, a unfastened made-for-TV remake by prolific filmmaker Jim Wynorksi, was launched in 2012.

Plot:
A younger couple, Pat Wheeler (Grady Vaughn) and Liz Humphries (Yolanda Salas) are making out. A large Gila monster assaults the automobile, sending it into the ravine and killing the couple.

Later, some associates of the couple resolve to help the native sheriff (Fred Graham) in his seek for the lacking teenagers. Chase Winstead (Don Sullivan), a younger mechanic and sizzling rod racer locates the crashed automobile within the ravine and finds proof of the large lizard.

Nevertheless, it is just when the hungry reptile assaults a practice that the authorities realise they’re coping with a seventy-foot toxic lizard…

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Solid and characters:
Don Sullivan … Chase Winstead – The Monster of Piedras Blancas; Teenage Zombies
Fred Graham … Sheriff Jeff
Lisa Simone … Lisa
Shug Fisher … Outdated Man Harris
Bob Thompson … Mr Wheeler
Janice Stone … Missy Winstead
Ken Knox … Horatio Alger “Steamroller” Smith
Homosexual McLendon … Mother Winstead
Don Flournoy … Gordy
Cecil Hunt … Mr Compton
Stormy Meadows … Agatha Humphries
Howard Ware … Ed Humphries
Pat Reeves … Rick
Jan McLendon … Jennie
Jerry Cortwright … Bob
Beverly Thurman … Homosexual
Clarke Browne … Chuck
Grady Vaughn … Pat Wheeler
Desmond Doogh … Hitchhiker
Ann Sonka … Whila
Yolanda Salas … Liz Humphries
Patricia Simmons … Sherry [uncredited]
Angus G. Wynne III … Dumb Teen [uncredited]

Filming areas:
Lake Dallas, Texas

Technical specs:
1 hour 14 minutes
Black and white [a digital colour version was created in 2007]
Facet ratio: 1.37: 1

Movie information:
Ken Knox, who performed Horatio Alger “Steamroller” Smith, was a real-life disc jockey working at radio stations in Texas owned by Gordon McLendon, the movie’s backer.

Ray Kellogg went on to co-direct John Wayne’s warfare fantasy The Inexperienced Berets (1968).

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