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A ten-year-old boy and Robby the Robot team up to prevent a Super Computer from controlling the Earth from a satellite.A ten-year-old boy and Robby the Robot team up to prevent a Super Computer from controlling the Earth from a satellite.A ten-year-old boy and Robby the Robot team up to prevent a Super Computer from controlling the Earth from a satellite.
Jefferson Searles
- Prof. Foster
- (as Jefferson Dudley Searles)
Rayford Barnes
- Capt. McLaren
- (uncredited)
Helen Kleeb
- Miss Vandergrift
- (uncredited)
Marvin Miller
- Robby the Robot
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaRobby the Robot's appearance in the film was partly because it was so expensive to build him for Forbidden Planet (1956) that MGM felt obliged to use him in another project.
- GoofsRobby the Robot travels freely between the Merrinoe home and the science lab, frequently in broad daylight, yet no one ever sees him.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown over an entry gate to someone's lovely, expensive home, and towards the end of it, we hear and see a motorcade enter the property.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Shock Theater: The Invisible Boy (1958)
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The Stoneman Institute of Mathematics under the military is developing a Supercomputer. The military is launching a secret satellite. Timmie Merinoe is an average ten year old. His father tries to improve his intelligence by bring him to the Supercomputer. Timmie improves to such an extent that he is able to reassemble Robbie the Robot which arrived from over 300 years in the future. Robbi helps turn him invisible. Meanwhile, the Supercomputer intends to take over the world using the military satellite.
There is a lot of nonchalant going on in this movie. None of the adults seem affected by a time-traveling robot especially the father. He treats the invisibility like an inconvenient prank. At times, it's laughable. This was probably strictly directed at kids. Reasoning is rudimentary and so is the acting. This is nowhere near the classic Forbidden Planet. There is a limited connection to the iconic movie which is more than simply reusing Robbie the Robot. It's cool to see this for a fan of Forbidden Planet but it's a weak movie on its own.
There is a lot of nonchalant going on in this movie. None of the adults seem affected by a time-traveling robot especially the father. He treats the invisibility like an inconvenient prank. At times, it's laughable. This was probably strictly directed at kids. Reasoning is rudimentary and so is the acting. This is nowhere near the classic Forbidden Planet. There is a limited connection to the iconic movie which is more than simply reusing Robbie the Robot. It's cool to see this for a fan of Forbidden Planet but it's a weak movie on its own.
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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