The Beast of Yucca Flats is a 1961 B-movie horror film produced by Anthony Cardoza, Coleman Francis, Roland Morin, Jim Oliphant, Larry Aten and Bing Stafford, and directed and written by Francis. <br /> <br />The film stars Swedish former wrestler Tor Johnson. The plot concerns a Soviet scientist (Johnson), who defects and flees to a Nevada Test Site called Yucca Flats, only to be turned into a monster by radiation, stalking the desert. The film has very little dialogue and most of the speech is done by omniscient narration <br /> <br />Some critics have characterized the film as one of the worst science fiction horror films made, and one of the all-time worst films of any kind, even suggesting that it may be worse than Ed Wood's legendarily bad Plan 9 from Outer Space.[1] In 1995, the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured The Beast of Yucca Flats, helping the film develop a cult status. <br /> <br /> <br /> Tor Johnson as Joseph Javorsky/The Beast <br /> Bing Stafford as Jim Archer <br /> Larry Aten as Joe Dobson <br /> Douglas Mellor as Hank Radcliffe <br /> Barbara Francis as Lois Radcliffe <br /> Ronald Francis as Randy Radcliffe <br /> Alan Francis as Art Radcliffe <br /> Jim Oliphant as Vacationing Husband <br /> Linda Bielema as Vacationing Wife <br /> Anthony Cardoza as KGB Driver/Helpful Neighbor <br /> Bob Labansat as Javorsky's Bodyguard <br /> John Morrison as KGB Passenger <br /> Jim Miles as Javorsky's Driver <br /> Eric Tomlin as Motorist Run Off Road <br /> George Prince as Man Who Reports Murder <br /> Conrad Brooks as Man at Airfield <br /> Graham Stafford as News Boy <br /> Lanell Cado as Strangled Woman <br /> Coleman Francis as Gas Station Attendant/Newspaper Patron <br /> Marcia Knight as Jim's Woman <br /> Joseph Luis Rubin as Police Officer
