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The Giant Gila Monster

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The Giant Gila Monster	label	The Giant Gila Monster
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The Giant Gila Monster	comment	The Giant Gila Monster is 1959 giant monster movie directed by Ray Kellogg (as part of a double-feature with The Killer Shrews).In the backwoods of northern Texas, in a car overlooking a ravine, a young local couple may be scheming to elope and marry when a claw pushes their car over the edge to their deaths. Back in town, at the teen hangout, the couple's friends wonder where they are, and hot rod enthusiast Chase Winstead (Don Sullivan) teams up with the sheriff to go and find them. Sure enough, it transpires that the eponymous beastie is lurking about, and is gradually making its way towards the town.This movie had the potential to be a campy narm-fest, alas; too little is seen of the big lizard wreaking destruction. It's seen on-screen for only about eight minutes of the film's 74 minute running time. All the rest is seemingly taken up with characters talking about where the couple might have disappeared, hot rods, and Chase playing/teens dancing to cheesy guitar music. The scenes of the lizard playing with toy cars on a miniature set are pretty good though.Remade in 2012 as Gila! by Jim Wynorski.For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode see here.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_10937270	type	Noisy Nature
The Giant Gila Monster / int_10937270	comment	Noisy Nature: Whenever it appears, the monster constantly makes hissing noises and high-pitched, screeching roars.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_13a499b8	type	Diabolus ex Nihilo
The Giant Gila Monster / int_13a499b8	comment	Diabolus ex Nihilo: We are never given any explanation for the monster's origin. Chase and the Sheriff posit that giant animals might be created by a particular saline solution affecting the pituitary gland and causing uncontrollable growth, but the movie never confirms this is what happened.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Giant Gila Monster / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: The sheriff tends to be a bit gruff, but is on generally good terms with the kids, especially Chase. Old Man Harris might count as well.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Giant Gila Monster / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Mr. Wheeler seems to have it in for very nearly everyone in the county.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Giant Gila Monster / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Earlier on in the film, Chase stores some vials of nitroglycerin. Guess what is eventually used to defeat the monster?
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
The Giant Gila Monster / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Chase's budding music career via Steamroller Smith. He gets offered employment by a more repentant Mr. Wheeler instead.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
The Giant Gila Monster / int_289008dc	comment	Somewhat an inversion since Chase is still a kind, upright Incorruptible Pure Pureness who saves the town and helps his polio-stricken sister.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Giant Gila Monster / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Chase's father apparently died while working for Mr. Wheeler.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_292dac7e	type	Sesquipedalian Smith
The Giant Gila Monster / int_292dac7e	comment	Sesquipedalian Smith: Horatio Alger "Steamroller" Smith, the DJ.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
The Giant Gila Monster / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: Well, they don't make it to the sex stage, but it is heavily implied that the young couple in the film's Cold Open were planning to elope before the lizard ate them.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Giant Gila Monster / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: The lizard isn't particularly scary to begin with, but it gets a lot less so when it completely fails to catch and eat a crippled nine-year-old.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Giant Gila Monster / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The Sheriff doesn't contribute much to finding and defeating the Gila monster - most of the work gets done by Chase and his friends. Justified by the fact that the Sheriff is literally the only cop in town, and one man cannot effectively search ten thousand square miles of wilderness for a car with two missing kids in it and the giant lizard who ate them.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Giant Gila Monster / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Mr. Wheeler (possibly). Chase's heroism and the Sheriff's Let's See YOU Do Better! does knock him down a peg and he even offers Chase a job.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
The Giant Gila Monster / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack Of The 50-Foot Killer Whatever
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Giant Gila Monster / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Old Man Harris. Presumably not Steamroller Smith though; although he is drunk when first we meet him, he's apparently just returning from an all-night party (as evidenced by his tux).
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Giant Gila Monster / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: It takes about fifty minutes before the lizard finally smashes a train, and sixty before it crashes a teen party.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_95864e13	type	B-Movie
The Giant Gila Monster / int_95864e13	comment	B-Movie
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Giant Gila Monster / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Chase has been in the habit of stealing parts from wrecked cars to upgrade his own. In the final act, Mr. Wheeler gets proof and decides to force the Sheriff (who was fully aware of this and at one point gave Chase explicit permission to repair a broken headlight on his car with one from a wreck) to arrest him for it. Then Chase's car is destroyed killing the lizard, taking all the evidence with it and ruining the case. On top of that, the Sheriff mentions that the railroad is likely to reward Chase for stopping the lizard with enough to get a new hot rod, so he won't need to commit petty crime to soup up his wheels anymore. Somewhat an inversion since Chase is still a kind, upright Incorruptible Pure Pureness who saves the town and helps his polio-stricken sister. Additionally, Chase (successfully) argues with the Sheriff that the wrecks he salvages parts from are all write-offs or go unclaimed, anyway.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_ab83cedf	type	Nitro Express
The Giant Gila Monster / int_ab83cedf	comment	Nitro Express: How Chase destroys the Gila monster after bullets fail.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_b2d3a774	type	Captain Morgan Pose
The Giant Gila Monster / int_b2d3a774	comment	Captain Morgan Pose: And lots of it; though mostly done by Chase, other actors can be seen making the pose too, suggesting a greater issue with blocking rather than just one actor's predilection for putting his feet on stuff (or it was contagious).
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_b3f0fc91	type	Track Trouble
The Giant Gila Monster / int_b3f0fc91	comment	Track Trouble: The monster's most devastating attack is a result of this. It knocks out a railroad bridge's main support, weakening the bridge enough that it breaks, sending the train crashing into the dry riverbed where it lives.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
The Giant Gila Monster / int_c34a1799	comment	Kaiju: The Giant Gila Monster.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_c4d293c4	type	Let's See YOU Do Better!
The Giant Gila Monster / int_c4d293c4	comment	Let's See YOU Do Better!: After putting up with Mr. Wheeler trying to push him around the entire movie, the Sheriff pulls this on him, announcing that Wheeler has just been deputized and put in charge of the safety of the kids whose party the lizard just crashed. After utterly failing to corral three dozen teenagers, Wheeler gives the badge back to the Sheriff.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
The Giant Gila Monster / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License – Chemistry: Nitroglycerin would explode very quickly if jerked around in a car like that.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
The Giant Gila Monster / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_d2aa7d09	type	Littlest Cancer Patient
The Giant Gila Monster / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient: Missy, Chase's crippled baby sister.
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The Giant Gila Monster / int_ed07a226	type	No More for Me
The Giant Gila Monster / int_ed07a226	comment	No More for Me: Some guy drinking while driving after he sees the lizard cross the road.
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The Giant Gila Monster	seeAlso	The Giant Gila Monster

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