Vashirdfel
Simply A Masterpiece
Deanna
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
Juana
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
sol1218
***SPOILERS*** What's seems like a combination of the movies "Indistructable Man" and "The Beast of Yucca Flat" the movie "The Most Dangerous Man Alive" has convicted murderer Eddie Candell, Ron Randell,escape from his trip to the San Quentin gas chamber when his ride, an armored car, taking him there overturns and he makes his way into the Nevada Desert. It just happened that a nuclear test is being conducted there and Candell runs or walks right into it! Surviving the nuclear blast Candell is somehow turned into a man of steel where his cells turn into iron and in a way makes the guy indestructible. We soon find out that Candell was innocent of the murder he was convicted of but framed by fellow mobster Andy Damon, Anthony Caruso and Randell's two timing girlfriend Linda Marlow, Debra Paget. Knowning that he hasn't long to live with his steel body eventually turning to rust Candell is now determined to make the two pay for what they did to him! Even if he has to destroy the entire state of California to do it!We get to see Candell slowly go murderously insane as he realizes he'll never be normal or human again. Candell takes out his frustrations on his fellow mobsters who set him up and sold him down the river. While doing that he get his girlfriend, not Linda who sold him out, the revenging beautiful Carla Angelo, Elaine Stewart, to help him find a cure for his illness, turning to steel, by getting in touch with Dr. Meeks, Tuder Owen, the man responsible for the nuclear blast that deformed him! It's his attempt to bring in alive mobster Andy Damon that sets off Candell's timetable in Damon and his hoods, whoever were still left after Candell offed them, doing everything to destroy him before he gets to them.***SPOLIERS*** It's the California National Guard together with the LAPD lead by Captain Davis played by, this was a drop down in rank for him, the legendary Eternal Colonel Morris Ankrum that finally put an end to Candell's wild rampage. But before he was pulverized by artillery small and heavy arms fire as well as blasted by some half dozen flame throwers Crandell finally redeemed and exonerated himself from the murder that he was falsely accused and convicted of. But by doing that he must have killed more then a dozen men on his way for him to archive that.
dbborroughs
Snoozer mix of science fiction and gangster movies Gangster being transported to jail escapes when the transport crashes. Staggering through the desert he ends up being nuked. He survived but is slowly developing a metallic skin. He goes on the run.A long 80 minutes as we get a mix of gangster wanting to get him, the cops wanting to get him, he wants revenge, and the scientists want to study him. There is no real attempt at showing the change other than a torn shirt with a loose tie.Yea it's a mess.Worse it's not very good.Take a pass.
email2amh
...but the few reviews here are mostly positive, so I don't have to this time. I liked this film, but I'm a 50's sci-fi nut. Interesting cast, yes, and I agree with most of the other comments...However, the film would have been more sci-fi-ish, and more interesting, if they had done something with the guy other than rub a little dirt on his face and tossle his hair. All we get is a crushed cigarette case, lightweight Supermanesque bullet shots, and apparently (though it's not explicit) some extra strength. And, yes, he survives a shock. It just needed more....something....anything.A very good B-/C+ light sci-fi film that mostly reaches its owns limited goals, and is fun to watch. Probably was born as a script for a straight gangster film, and then adapted to sci-fi (just guessing).
Chris Gaskin
The Most Dangerous Man Alive is a good sci-fi/gangster picture and I've seen this a couple of times.Gangster Eddie Candell becomes indestructible after being caught up in an atomic bomb test that should have killed him. He now has steel in him which makes him very strong too. Police now want him dead more than ever as he is even more dangerous but a scientist wants him alive as he is a unique specimen and wants to do tests on him. He has two women on the go and he kidnaps one of these. Police eventually catch up with him though and he is killed by flame throwers at the end and turns into a pile of ash.This movie has echoes of The Indestructible Man and the 1950's already had men exposed to radiation shrinking and turning into giants. Typical of the Atomic Age is this.The cast includes Ron Randell, Debra Paget (The Haunted Palace), sci-fi regular Morris Ankrum (Invaders From Mars, Giant From the Unknown), Elaine Stewart and Tuder Owen.The Most Dangerous Man Alive is quite an obscure movie and my copy is from the Sci-Fi Channel, which a mate taped for me as I don't have this. A treat.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.
