The Beast of Yucca Flats ~ 1961 -BW

QUICKIE: A boring, drawn out story of a crazy man killing everyone he can find in the desert while rangers try to find and kill him.

PLOT: A defecting Russian scientist (Tor Johnson) is transformed by an atomic test into a murderous monster. A couple is killed, boys get lost, their dad is shot at while searching for them. Rangers climb mountains searching for the monster and they eventually find and kill him.

SUMMARY: This begining of this film is for guys. It begins with a chick fresh from the shower wrapped only in a towel who promptly gets strangled. Then there's Russian spies, a shoot out and a car chase that ends in the desert. The big Russian spy with his briefcase chained to his wrist sets off into the desert to escape while the shoot out continues. Then boom! An atomic blast complete with historic mushroom cloud footage. And voila! Our Russian spy becomes a murdering psychopathic monster. Because as Hiroshima has taught us all, nuclear bombs do create psychopaths intent on murdering everything they can find.

The local cop goes to his buddy's house and we hear the caveman like mini-sentences while the whole scene focuses on his hot wife in low cut, high hitched nightgown sexily getting out of bed, bending over so we can oogle the hot clevage and then she gets back into bed so we can oogle her legs. Completely gratuitous boobie & leg scene, but I was so caught up with the sex appeal I didn't care. But I did laugh at this slow caveman dialogue:

Joe: Jim?
Jim: Be down in a minute Joe.
Jim: Yea?
Joe: Better come with me. Trouble up the road. Murder.
Jim: Be right down.
Jim: See ya later honey.

Boring reading, but funnier when dragged out for dramatic effect which it just can't deliver. I really expected the men to follow up with "ugga, ugga. me. man. fire. kill." The dialougue is generally sparse. There's long quiet stretches in the movie, punctuated by a narrator who makes comments like this:

Twenty hours without rest and still no enemy. In the blistering desert heat, Jim and Joe plan their next attack. Find the Beast and kill him. Kill, or be killed. Man's inhumanity to man.

A strange, boring film that leaves me saying yuck-a to "Yucca". heehee