Standard Bert I. Gordon thing. He made a lot of movies, most of them about giants.
Sequel to The Amazing Colossal Man which was about an Army guy who is exposed to radiation and turns giant becoming more and more unhinged as he tries to come to terms with his new condition. In this one, he's disfigured to conceal the fact that they had a different actor playing him.
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (which Gordon had nothing to do with) had the lurid subplot going for it. While doctors try to find some treatment for the fifty foot woman, her husband takes advantage and becomes a swinger. His brassy giant alcoholic wife goes out looking for him.
In this movie, there was nothing. The giant guy's wife still loves him even though he's fled to Mexico where picks up trucks transporting food and eats everything.
Today, it could have a drug cartel supplying the colossal man with food and drugs while using him to terrorize the locals and keep the military and police at bay.
In the '50's, locals could use him as a weapon in the struggle for land reform. Maybe they could enslave him and make him do all the work.
I liked the scene with the bratty junior high kids he almost massacres.
Available on Pub D Hub, which means it's public domain and probably available on other channels as well.
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