Giant from the Unknown is a 1958 B movie

B movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

 released by Astor Pictures

Astor Pictures

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. The film stars Ed Kemmer

Ed Kemmer

Ed Kemmer was an American motion picture and television actor.-Life:Kemmer was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and served as a fighter pilot in World War II. He was shot down and sent to a POW camp...

, Sally Fraser

Sally Fraser

Sally Fraser is an American actress who appeared on television and in numerous films. She became best known for appearing in low-budget science fiction films of the 1950s....

, and Buddy Baer

Buddy Baer

Jacob Henry "Buddy" Baer was an American boxer. In 2003, Baer was chosen for the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time...

. Baer, who played Vargas, the Giant in this film, also played a giant in Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk (1952 film)

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(1952), starring Bud Abbott

Bud Abbott

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 and Lou Costello

Lou Costello

Louis Francis "Lou" Costello was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott...

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Plot

A giant, named Vargas (Baer), who was part of an expedition of Spanish Conquistadors, who vanished in the mountains of California in the 16th century is revived by a lightning bolt from a state of suspended animation. He kills a police officer by breaking every bone in his body, then proceeds to terrorize the town.

Cast

• Ed Kemmer
  Ed Kemmer
  Ed Kemmer was an American motion picture and television actor.-Life:Kemmer was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and served as a fighter pilot in World War II. He was shot down and sent to a POW camp...
  
   as Wayne Brooks
• Sally Fraser as Janet Cleveland
• Buddy Baer as Vargas the Giant
• Bob Steele
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   as Sheriff Parker
• Morris Ankrum
  Morris Ankrum
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   as Dr. Frederick Cleveland
• Oliver Blake as Cafe Proprietor
• Jolene Brand
  Jolene Brand
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  as Anne Brown
• Billy Dix as Indian Joe
• Gary Crutcher as Charlie Brown
• Ned Davenport as Townsman
• Ewing Miles Brown as Townsman