classic · tense

The Beast of Yucca Flats

1961 · Rated NR · 54m · Coleman Francis

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A refugee Soviet scientist arrives at a desert airport carrying secret documents, but is attacked by a pair of KGB assassins and escapes into the desert, where he comes in range of an American nuclear test and is transformed into a mindless killing beast.

Starring Tor Johnson, Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis

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