Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961) DVD-R

Starring Ron Randell, Debra Paget, Elaine Stewart, Anthony Caruso, Gregg
Palmer
Directed by Allan Dwan

Print: black/white
Runtime: 82 min.
Genre: sci-fi

Flamboyant mob chief Eddie Candell (Ron Randell), who was framed for
murder by jealous associate Andy Damon (Anthony Caruso), makes a
break while on his way to the death house. Fleeing across the desert, he
suddenly finds himself on an atomic testing range, just as an
experimental bomb goes off. Instead of being killed instantly, Eddie is
bombarded by radiation from Cobalt Isotope X, a newly discovered
element that leaves him alive but transformed -- reacting to the radiation
and the steel of the handcuffs on his wrists, his body takes on the
hardness of steel and can absorb the metal on contact, including any
bullets that might be fired at him. In addition to making him all but
indestructible, the mutation gives Eddie the strength of ten men, which
he uses to tear his way through the ranks of his former associates,
terrorizing the woman (Debra Paget) who betrayed him and crushing the
life out of anyone who gets in his way as he tries to get to Damon.
However, his psyche has been affected as well; he was already consumed
by a desire for revenge, but he slowly loses any ability to perceive
pleasure or compassion as he slowly transforms into a kind of living metal
and the body count around him rises. Only Carla Angelo (Elaine Stewart),
his girlfriend and also a genuinely "nice" girl, can reach him, and she
must decide whether to help to try and save him or to destroy him.