Complete credited cast: | |||
Jeff Morrow | ... | Dr. Leslie Gaskell | |
Barbara Lawrence | ... | Vera Hunter | |
John Emery | ... | Dr. Hubbell Eliot | |
George O'Hanlon | ... | Dr. Arnold Culver | |
Morris Ankrum | ... | Dr. Albert Stern | |
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Kenneth Alton | ... | McCrary - The Pickup Driver |
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John Parrish | ... | Gen. Perry |
Jose Gonzales-Gonzales | ... | Manuel Ramirez (as Jose G. Gonzales) | |
Richard Harrison | ... | Pilot | |
Marjorie Stapp | ... | Nurse | |
Robert Shayne | ... | Air Force General | |
Don Eitner | ... | Weather Operator (as Donald Eitner) | |
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Gordon Mills | ... | Sergeant |
John Halloran | ... | Lab Central Security Guard |
Scientists investigate what appears to be a meteorite that crashes into the ocean. After a few days and nights of mysterious lights and noises, a giant machine comes out of the ocean. The machine is the creation of an alien race, that is trying to syphon energy from earth. A true classic, in that it is so different from anything in the time period. To this day, nothing else has come out like it. Written by Anonymous
As must always be kept in mind while viewing classic SF cinema, one cannot and should not extricate a film from its historical context. Kronos is no exception. This is 1950's SF movie making at its marginal budgetary best.
Certainly the storyline taxes credibility, involving alien possession of humans, but the ETs at least have a practical purpose for invading than just doing it out of spite. Plus, the dirty work isn't accomplished with sundry flying saucers and blaster rays, but by a huge robot.
The acting is an uneven mixture of serious and melodramatic that oddly adds to the dark overtones of the fims early scenes. The dialogue, littered with quasi-scientific jargon, flows at near poetic tempo.
Ultimately, it is the clever resourcefulness of our nuclear-scientist heroes that wins the day. Now that has to be worth watching!