Cyborg 2087 (1966)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Franklin Adreon

Writer:

Arthur C. Pierce (writer)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

His Mission... Stop the Invasion of the Cyborgs!

Plot:

Earth's civilization of the future sends a cyborg back to the 1960s to change the future.

Plot Keywords:

Cyborg | Scientist | 1960s | 2080s | Anti Communist

Cast

Michael Rennie	...	Garth A7
Karen Steele	...	Dr. Sharon Mason
Wendell Corey	...	Sheriff
Warren Stevens	...	Dr. Carl Zellar
Eduard Franz	...	Prof. Sigmund Marx
Harry Carey Jr.	...	Jay C
Adam Rourke	...	Deputy Dan
Chubby Johnson	...	Uncle Pete
Tyler MacDuff	...	Sam Gilmore
Dale Van Sickel	...	Tracer #1
Troy Melton	...	Tracer #2
Jimmy Hibbard	...	Rick
Sherry Alberoni	...	Laura Zellar
Betty Jane Royale	...	Jill
John Beck	...	Skinny

Also Known As:

Man from Tomorrow

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Harold Goldman Associates

Before Steve Austin, Before Jean Claude Van Damme

The term, cyborg, meaning cybernetic organism, relates to a human enhanced with mechanical parts, often robotic in nature.

Thus gave us the first glimpse into this genre. Albeit low budget (I mean, instrumentation from the future labeled with Dymo Label Maker Tapes?) and featuring actors who were at their peak not just a few short years before, including Michael Rennie, Klaatu from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" or "The Keeper" from "Lost In Space", or Warren Stevens, Doc Ostrow from "Forbidden Planet ("Monsters! Monsters from the ID!") and throwing the tem-oral twist of alternative time lines, this cyborg pre-dated "The Six Million Dollar Man" (and Martin Cadin's novel it was based on, "Cyborg"), the Jean Claude Van Damme dystopic future wasteland adventure, even Star Trek: The Next Generation's most relentless enemies, the Borg (sounds Swedish!...sorry. I couldn't resist).

Add to that the obvious Terminator references (and people still forget about Harlan Ellison's own legal action against Cameron due to similarities in his Outer Limits scripts "Demon With the Glass Hand" and "Soldier") and you have a low-budget oddity that hasn't made the rounds in the post-midnight TV info-mercial circuit in years, being swept aside by other B-Movie kings like the Band Brothers' Full Moon Productions or Bert I. Gordon's & Brian Yuzna's Lovecraft micro-epics.