I think what I dig most about this movie is that not only do you get the titular "mad bomber"(played by the great Chuck Connors) bombing the crap out of L.A. but as a bonus they also throw in a sleazy rapist(played by the also fantastic Neville Brand). The main plot deals with a detective(Vince Edwards) trying to locate rapey Mr. Brand because he got a look at the bomber while stalking a lady and then trying to get him to cooperate in the investigation. Along the way bodies get blown apart, multiple ladies get attacked and raped and Chuck Connors does some amazing moralizing to strangers. There's a heavily-edited version of this that's been released on DVD that was taken from the T.V. showing. It also has some alternative scenes which I guess they shot just for this cut. Luckily I was able to score a bootleg original R-rated version recently which is the way this one should be viewed.
Amazingly this was directed by the same man who brought us THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, as well as many other big monster flicks back in the 50's & 60's, Bert I. Gordon. This really couldn't be any more different from that film but they are both equally amazing in their own ways. AKA THE POLICE CONNECTION, GERONIMO and DETECTIVE GERONIMO
They really tried to make this movie seem like DIRTY HARRY with these posters!:
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