The 50 Ft. Woman Meets the Colossal Man

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     In 1957 The Amazing Colossal Man was released to the theaters. It was the story of military man Glenn Manning caught in a nuclear explosion at a Nevada test site. This, obviously, makes him grow to extraordinary size and he goes on a rampage. At the end of the movie, he falls off a dam apparently to his death, but a sequel came out a year later where he was disfigured and continues his rampage. What if he got a happier sequel?
     In 1958 Allison Hayes played Nancy Archer, a woman who grows to incredible height after investigating an extraterrestrial craft that landed in the Southern California desert. Imagine if Nancy and Glenn met and realized they finally found someone who could understand them and stopped their destructive ways. Maybe they could get married at the Little Chapel in Las Vegas.

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