***SPOILERS*** A lot of strange things have been happening in and around the town of Pine Ridge that reach a breaking point for those living there when local cattleman Harold Banks was found beaten to death by what at first was suspected to be an escapee from a near mental institution. It's when professor Cleveland played by the venerable "Eternal Colonel" himself Morris Ankrum, in a rare non military role, shows up or rolled into town with his lovely and available, yes she's not married, daughter Janet, Sally Fraser, that things really started to get out of hand.
That's in the towns handsome and single and unattached hard as well as soft rock specialist Wayne Brooks, Edward Kemmer, by him taking a shine more to Janet then to the rocks that he's studying. It turns out that Wayne had found a 500 year old lizard encased in a rock formation that came to life after he cracked it open with a dose of radiation! As for the professor he's interested in finding the remains of this giant Spanish Conquistador named Varges "The Diablo Giant", Buddy Baer, who vanished with his men in and around Pine Ridge some 500 years ago. It soon becomes apparent that Vargas is alive and well in them hills when a bolt of lighting struck his burial site at Devil's Crag and brought him back to life! Rampaging through the area Vargas murders Ann Brown, Joline Brand, as she was fetching water from a nearby well.It turns out that it's Wayne who's suspected in Ann's murder in that a Spanish medallion that belonged to him was found at the murder site.
***SPOILERS*** It took a while for Wayne to convince the local Sheriff Parker, Bob Steele, that he's innocent after a number of brutal killings that included that of the wise old Indian Joe, Billy Dix, while Wayne was still in custody. With a search party organized by Sheriff Parker that included the late Ann's brother Charlie Brown, Gary Crutcher, who by going on his own almost ends up getting himself killed by Vargas. Tracked down in an abandoned cabin the big guy as he checked out is finally trapped on a skimpy bridge, that could barley support his 400 plus pound weight, by Wayne and while fighting him he ends up losing his footing and drops down and washed away into a 100 foot waterfall. Where he ends up draining intro a radioactive crater never to be seen or heard from again!
That's in the towns handsome and single and unattached hard as well as soft rock specialist Wayne Brooks, Edward Kemmer, by him taking a shine more to Janet then to the rocks that he's studying. It turns out that Wayne had found a 500 year old lizard encased in a rock formation that came to life after he cracked it open with a dose of radiation! As for the professor he's interested in finding the remains of this giant Spanish Conquistador named Varges "The Diablo Giant", Buddy Baer, who vanished with his men in and around Pine Ridge some 500 years ago. It soon becomes apparent that Vargas is alive and well in them hills when a bolt of lighting struck his burial site at Devil's Crag and brought him back to life! Rampaging through the area Vargas murders Ann Brown, Joline Brand, as she was fetching water from a nearby well.It turns out that it's Wayne who's suspected in Ann's murder in that a Spanish medallion that belonged to him was found at the murder site.
***SPOILERS*** It took a while for Wayne to convince the local Sheriff Parker, Bob Steele, that he's innocent after a number of brutal killings that included that of the wise old Indian Joe, Billy Dix, while Wayne was still in custody. With a search party organized by Sheriff Parker that included the late Ann's brother Charlie Brown, Gary Crutcher, who by going on his own almost ends up getting himself killed by Vargas. Tracked down in an abandoned cabin the big guy as he checked out is finally trapped on a skimpy bridge, that could barley support his 400 plus pound weight, by Wayne and while fighting him he ends up losing his footing and drops down and washed away into a 100 foot waterfall. Where he ends up draining intro a radioactive crater never to be seen or heard from again!