- After wandering in a nuclear testing area in the desert, escaped mobster Ron Candell starts mutating and seeks revenge on his former crime partners.
- Mobster Ron Candell is set up by his underlings - principally Andy Damon - and is convicted of murder. He escapes but finds himself in a nuclear testing area. He survives the blast but his body begins to undergo change at the cellular level, making him a man of steel. He makes his way back to town seeking revenge on those who testified against him, including his ex-girlfriend Linda Marlow. As he continues to mutate however, he become ever more dangerous. Stopping him however is easier said than done.—garykmcd
- En route to San Quentin and the gas chamber in being convicted of murder, gangster Eddie Candell, a publicity hound who laundered his illegal wealth through his vending machine company, is able to escape custody. Although not yet apprehended, Eddie is seen on surveillance footage stumbling onto a nuclear test site just as a test bomb is detonated, he subsequently seen surviving the explosion. Scientist Dr. Meeker, who has been doing tests on animals exposed to the primary nuclear fallout of Chemical X, is certain that iron has fused onto Eddie's internal body, literally making him a seemingly indestructible iron man. In this aftermath, four different groups or individuals are looking for Eddie, none who may be able to stop him from doing whatever he wants in his new physical state. First are the authorities led by Captain Davis and Lieutenant Fisher who just want him captured and his sentence completed. Second are his former criminal associates who framed him for this crime which he didn't commit. Top among these former associates who Eddie may be looking for in return to exact revenge are Andy Damon, who led the plot against him, and Linda Marlow, Eddie's girl who in reality was working for Damon in being truly his girl, her perjured testimony which clinched the conviction against Eddie. Third is Dr. Meeker, who solely wants to help Eddie. While unsure of the long term health effects to him or to others with who he is in contact, Dr. Meeker believes that the iron in Eddie's body will only intensify those criminal instincts inherent to him, that is unless there is some sort of medical intervention. And fourth is Carla Angelo, Eddie's protégé who truly does love him and only wants to see that he is safe.—Huggo
- Flamboyant mob chief Eddie Candell (Ron Randell), who was framed for murder by jealous associate Andy Damon (Anthony Caruso), makes a break while on his way to the death house. Fleeing across the desert, he suddenly finds himself on an atomic testing range, just as an experimental bomb goes off. Instead of being killed instantly, Eddie is bombarded by radiation from Cobalt Isotope X, a newly discovered element that leaves him alive but transformed -- reacting to the radiation and the steel of the handcuffs on his wrists, his body takes on the hardness of steel and can absorb the metal on contact, including any bullets that might be fired at him. In addition to making him all but indestructible, the mutation gives Eddie the strength of ten men, which he uses to tear his way through the ranks of his former associates, terrorizing the woman (Debra Paget) who betrayed him and crushing the life out of anyone who gets in his way as he tries to get to Damon. However, his psyche has been affected as well; he was already consumed by a desire for revenge, but he slowly loses any ability to perceive pleasure or compassion as he slowly transforms into a kind of living metal and the body count around him rises. Only Carla Angelo (Elaine Stewart), his girlfriend and also a genuinely "nice" girl, can reach him, and she must decide whether to help to try and save him or to destroy him
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