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Wyott Ordung (screenplay)
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25 June 1953 (USA)
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Adventures Into The Future in New TRU-3 Dimension more
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The Robot Monster has been sent to Earth as the advance party of an impending invasion. Ordered by The Great One to capture several humans...
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1+ hour advertisement for the billion bubble machine
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(Complete credited cast)| George Nader | ... | Roy | |
| Claudia Barrett | ... | Alice | |
| Selena Royle | ... | Mother (as Selena Royale) | |
| John Mylong | ... | The Professor | |
| Gregory Moffett | ... | Johnny | |
| Pamela Paulson | ... | Carla | |
| George Barrows | ... | Ro-Man the Monster / (2nd role) Great Guidance | |
| John Brown | ... | Ro-Man / Great Guidance (voice) |
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Originally released in 3-D.
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Roy and Alice told Carla to go home she is going on wrong way.
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Referenced in Cuatro estaciones (2010) (TV)
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It's an old theme, and one particularly pertinent to the cold war. Aliens conquer the earth, and earthlings are too small minded to put aside their grievances, so all is lost. However, in the case of Robot Monster, the aliens are big guys in ape suits and old-school scuba gear (odd concept of a robot, IMO), and all the action in the film appears to be either stock warfare footage or scraps of bad sci-fi films found on the cutting room floor, spliced in with some pathetic burning miniature rocket ships, and all not even loosely tied into the "plot".
George Nader, who helped Frankie Avalon ruin the masterpiece of garbage cinema "Million Eyes of Sumuru", is the star, but the only people who act in this film are Claudia Barrett and John Brown (the Ro-Man), and even so, they're not very good at it. As a man well aware of his limits, Nader doesn't usually bother with acting. Like most of the cast members of Robot Monster, he simply recites his lines and adds a smile, a chuckle, or a gesture here and there.
It gets worse. I am a professional archaeologist, and though I appreciate the credit this film gives my profession, I sincerely doubt that any archaeologist will ever develop a serum that makes humans immune to every possible form of disease. Furthermore, I have ethical concerns about the fact that he tests it on HIS ENTIRE FAMILY, even if doing so allowed them to be the only survivors of the alien holocaust brought about by Ro-man! I guess this makes Robot Monster a pioneering cyberpunk film since the entire plot takes place after the destruction of most of earth's life. Most of the plot is incoherent, utterly ridiculous and unexplained.
You continue to watch because, despite the mediocre cinematography, worse than mediocre directing and script, you want to see just how much worse it can get. In that sense, this film is no disappointment. It gives Manos a run for its money, but in the end does no harm, and its a lot more fun, so I gave it a two (the extra star is for being harmless). This is an amazingly goofy and silly film, comparable in its absurdity to Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Go for it if you're into that kind of thing, or if you harbor a secret desire to see George Nader get married without a shirt in a ceremony performed by a German archaeologist.