Movies/ 1950s sci fi: Kronos decent killer robot/ B movie

[David Brown]

Here's something I thought would be of more interest than usual, a review of Kronos, one of the best actual B movies. Something that came up incidentally is that the most iconic 1950s movie robots were more or less peaceful, eg Robby and maybe Gort. Can anyone suggest a 1950s movie where a robot was the villain?
https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2023/02/robot-revolution-one-where-robot-stomps.html

[Tony Nance]

On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 4:32:18 PM UTC-5, David Brown wrote:
> Here's something I thought would be of more interest than usual, a review of Kronos, one of the best actual B movies. Something that came up incidentally is that the most iconic 1950s movie robots were more or less peaceful, eg Robby and maybe Gort. Can anyone suggest a 1950s movie where a robot was the villain?
> https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2023/02/robot-revolution-one-where-robot-stomps.html

Probably the one in Robot Monster...<google> Ro-Man. And perhaps Colossus in
The Colossus of New York? (Though Colossus is indeed a threat, it's also a
tragic development stemming form a tragic situation, so "villain" is less clear.)

Tony

[Jack Bohn]

Robby's second film, "The Invisible Boy." Actually, it was suborned by an evil computer, but that just backs it up a bit, if you consider a computer merely an immobile robot.

Hmm... the "Gog" robots, and their computer, were suborned by foreign agents.

I think in the movie version of "The Twonky" its motives were mere speculation, but it was thought to be a tool of a tyranny. It could just have wished "to serve and protect and guard men from harm".

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-Jack

[Paul S Person]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:46:27 -0800 (PST), Jack Bohn
<jack....@gmail.com> wrote:

>Tony Nance wrote:
>> On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 4:32:18 PM UTC-5, David Brown wrote:
>> > Here's something I thought would be of more interest than usual, a review of Kronos, one of the best actual B movies. Something that came up incidentally is that the most iconic 1950s movie robots were more or less peaceful, eg Robby and maybe Gort. Can anyone suggest a 1950s movie where a robot was the villain?
>> > https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2023/02/robot-revolution-one-where-robot-stomps.html
>> Probably the one in Robot Monster...<google> Ro-Man. And perhaps Colossus in
>> The Colossus of New York? (Though Colossus is indeed a threat, it's also a
>> tragic development stemming form a tragic situation, so "villain" is less clear.)
>
>Robby's second film, "The Invisible Boy." Actually, it was suborned by an evil computer, but that just backs it up a bit, if you consider a computer merely an immobile robot.

Which, when I rented it a while back to refresh my fading memory of
it, turned out to have rather too much boy, and not enough
invisibility.

>Hmm... the "Gog" robots, and their computer, were suborned by foreign agents.
>
>I think in the movie version of "The Twonky" its motives were mere speculation, but it was thought to be a tool of a tyranny. It could just have wished "to serve and protect and guard men from harm".
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