Gordon film still makes for only a barely passable B movie. That said, even a better-than-average Bert I. His single best film is the mind-boggling The Mad Bomber (1973). Gordon’s output is not particularly good and The Amazing Colossal Man is probably the best of his films from the 1950s. Indeed, The Amazing Colossal Man was rushed into release only eight months following The Incredible Shrinking Man. The two of these inform almost all of Bert I.
Gordon’s two greatest influences during the 1950s appear to have been Them! (1954) – the first giant atomic insect film – and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) – about a man shrunken to miniature size by an atomic cloud.
Gordon’s films falls into themes dealing either with giantism or miniaturisation of either humans or insects with the likes of The Cyclops (1957), Beginning of the End (1957), Attack of the Puppet People (1958), Earth vs the Spider (1958), and of course The Amazing Colossal Man and its sequel War of the Colossal Beast (1958), as well as the subsequent likes of Village of the Giants (1965), The Food of the Gods (1976) and Empire of the Ants (1977). There are few people whose names are more appropriate to their artistic output. Gordon must have found the acronym his initials bequeathed him a remarkable coincidence – as a filmmaker, he quickly earned the acronym of Mr B.I.G.
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