Beginning with King Dinosaur in 1955 through Earth vs the Spider in 1958, filmmaker Bert I. Gordon earned his moniker of Mr. BIG. Big monsters terrorizing small towns was his stock in trade. As were slow plots and literal garage-level special effects. Alas, everyone’s salad days come to an end, and once the public’s appetite for big monsters was satiated by the end of the ’50s, Gordon’s output slowed. He never left the world of b-movies, bouncing around all sorts of different genres. Eventually he returned to big monsters with The Food of the Gods in 1976, and I like to think that was because today’s film was the last straw. He had had enough and wanted to get back to what he did best. Continue reading “The Mad Bomber, aka The Police Connection, aka Detective Geronimo”