Movie Review: The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
Synopsis: When a pair of teenagers go missing from a rural town, their friends agree to help the sheriff with the search. What they don't know is the area is about to be terrorized by a 70-foot poisonous lizard. Who's in it? The movie stars Don Sullivan , Lisa Simone , Fred Graham , Shug Fisher and Bob Thompson. Review: I came across this movie some time ago but, after being disappointed by similar films, was reluctant to watch it. I finally decided to give it a try this morning and, after seeing it, I am fairly convinced my reluctance was justified. I think one of my biggest problems with this movie is it makes the same mistake many other films make; it spends a lot of time building up to the big climax and not enough time actually showing the deadly creature. OK, let me rephrase that. The movie does show the "monster" quite a few times. It just doesn't bother to show it in any sort of scale until toward the very end of the movie and any killing it does is don...