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''The Beast of Yucca Flats'' is a B-movie horror film released in 1961. The film stars Swedish former wrestler Tor Johnson and was both written and directed by Coleman Francis. The plot concerns a Soviet scientist (Johnson), who defects and flees to a Nevada Test Site called Yucca Flats, only to be turned into a monster by radiation, who then menaces the desert. The film has very little dialogue and most of the speech is done by omniscient narration, provided by writer and director Francis. Some critics have characterized the film as one of the worst science fiction horror films made, and one of the all-time worst films of any kind, even suggesting that it may be worse than Ed Wood's legendarily bad ''Plan 9 from Outer Space''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Beast of Yucca Flats'' )〕 In 1995, the television comedy series ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'', featured ''The Beast of Yucca Flats'', helping the film develop a cult status. ==Plot== The film opens with a woman (Lanell Cado) getting out of the shower where she is attacked and strangled to death by a mysterious man as the sound of a clock reverberates before going silent. Later in Yucca Flats, Nevada, Soviet scientist Joseph Javorsky (Tor Johnson) has defected from Russia and arrives in America with a briefcase carrying various military secrets, including the Soviet moon landing. Javorsky and his American contacts are suddenly attacked by a pair of KGB assassins (Anthony Cardoza and John Morrison) killing Javorsky's contacts and bodyguards. Javorsky flees into the desert, walking for a great distance, and the searing heat causing him to discard much of his clothing. When he wanders in range of an American nuclear test, the bewildered Russian is transformed by radiation into a mindless beast with an uncontrollable urge to kill. He proceeds to kill a couple in their car on a nearby road, prompting pursuit from two police officers Jim Archer (Bing Stafford) and Joe Dobson (Larry Aten). Meanwhile, a vacationing family ventures along the same road. After stopping at a service station, the family's two young sons (Ronald and Alan Francis) wander off into the surrounding desert where they eventually encounter and escape from the mutated Javorsky. Their father (Douglas Mellor) searches for them, but is mistaken for the killer by one of the police officers, who is searching for the murderer from the air in a small plane. The officer opens fire with a high-powered rifle on the innocent man, who manages to escape. Eventually the family is reunited and the police shoot and mortally wound Javorsky. A jackrabbit later nuzzles his dying body, and using the last of his strength he caresses it before dying. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Beast of Yucca Flats」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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