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Giant from the Unknown: Lightning Strike?

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Number 6	Giant from the Unknown: Lightning Strike?	Lead	[-]
Feb 22 13 9:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	As a kid, I remember a scene in the film where lightning (from the night's storm) strikes the sword handle that's sticking out of the giant's grave. And that it's the lightning strike that brings the giant back to life. Does anyone else remember this scene? I'd hate to think I dreamed it up! And by the way, who did kill old man Baines and bust-up his hen house? Couldn't have been the giant. Edited together out of sequence possibly? (sorry if this has been discussed previous.)
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CapnDunsel		#1	[-]
Feb 22 13 9:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	great memory! I watched it for the first time recently (within the last 12 months), but only recall the lightning, and poor editing around someone getting mortally wounded without explanation.
Number 6		#2	[-]
Feb 23 13 4:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hey Capn, Yeah, apparently the production had some problems because they were shooting non-union (according to a MidMar book the name of which escapes me) and maybe this found it's way into the editing. Anyway, lots of great faces in the film despite the low budget! I'm not giving up on the sword handle lightning strike yet!
EdWainwright		#3	[-]
Mar 3 13 3:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I watched GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN last night for the umpteenth time to be sure of my facts before posting on here. There's no sword anywhere in the film; the only weapon that Vargas carries is his oversized battleaxe, and there's no scene of it or anything else being struck by lightning. As to who killed the old man at the beginning of the movie, it definitely was Vargas since the film starts after the giant's ( unseen ) resurrection. The scene later in the movie in which Vargas crawls out from under a dead tree is not his initial revival, it's just him waking up from a nap in what was probably the only warm, well hidden space that he could find.
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Number 6		#4	[-]
Mar 3 13 3:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ed, Yes, a battleaxe! Forgot that it wasn't a sword. I understand that there appears to be no print out there today that shows a lightning strike to the battleaxe. It's that I remember seeing it as a kid and was wondering if anyone else had the same recollection and that perhaps the scene was taken out at some point and never found it's way back. It looks like we have differing opinions about the giant's revival. I do see his crawling up from the dirt as a resurrection as opposed to his finding shelter for the night. When I find out who offed old man Baines, will post here! Thanks for the reply!
EdWainwright		#5	[-]
Mar 3 13 4:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Can't agree with you here. We don't see Vargas rising up out of the grave provided for him by the local Indians five hundred years earlier; we see him crawl out from under a dead tree ( one certainly not five centuries old ) with a little loose dirt on him along with a covering of dead leaves that he fashioned to help keep him warm on a cold rainy night. Vargas had to be the one who killed Baines since only someone with the giant's strength could have battered the old man's body to the degree that was described.
jerod26		#6	[-]
Mar 21 13 9:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Watched this movie for the first time last night. It's pure 1950s cheesy fun and I really enjoyed it. Today then I was reading the notes included in the Cornith/Image release. When I got to the end saw it was written by Tom Weaver. Ain't that something. jerod blayney
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