Before the explosion, the character Eddie Candell was wearing a jacket.
Immediately after the explosion, he is not wearing a jacket.
This is one of those 1950ish Sci-Fi/Nuclear Paranoia entries that for some reason was mostly ignored and little seen until recently. But the oversight was probably intentional since once viewed there is little here that is either memorable or worth much.
***SPOILERS*** What's seems like a combination of the movies "Indistructable Man" and "The Beast of Yucca Flat" the movie "The Most Dangerous Man Alive" has convicted murderer Eddie Candell, Ron Randell,escape from his trip to the San Quentin gas chamber when his ride, an armored car, taking him there overturns and he makes his way into the Nevada Desert. It just happened that a nuclear test is being conducted there and Candell runs or walks right into it!
Snoozer mix of science fiction and gangster movies Gangster being transported to jail escapes when the transport crashes. Staggering through the desert he ends up being nuked.
After first reading about this movie when i was a kid,I finally caught it on TNT late one night.I thought it was pretty good ,even though hampered a little by a low budget.
The Most Dangerous Man Alive is a good sci-fi/gangster picture and I've seen this a couple of times.Gangster Eddie Candell becomes indestructible after being caught up in an atomic bomb test that should have killed him.
...but the few reviews here are mostly positive, so I don't have to this time.
Mainly notable as prolific director Dwan's swan-song (and his tenth film for producer Benedict Bogeaus), this also happened to be his sole genre foray. Plot-wise, it recalls the recently-viewed 4D MAN (1959) and, even more so, Edgar G.
