I enjoyed this juvenile sci-fi flick, which is very silly, but given some heft by the opening scenes (including the apparently real stock footage of a test pilot) and by the wonderful old Taylor Holmes as Professor Nordstrom. Young Billy Chapin from Night of the Hunter is pretty good, too.
I rated it 5/10 for the database. What did you rate it? And what did you think of it?
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...Justin
I liked Karin Booth and Billy Chapin. I think it's 50's SciFi B-movie time-capsule.
As I recall from last viewing (years ago, on my laser disk) there was what I thought was a plot goof because the bad guy deliberately destroys a fountain pen that was a remote controller for the robot, in order to threaten the scientist to turn over the robot to him. He should have just kept the pen and used it to summon the robot.
It was a differently paced and staged SciFi than we get today. It was fun as a campy B-movie, but it really needed Karin Booth and Billy Chapin to liven it up with their youthfulness and good looks.
I rated it a seven. In its own way it's a classic.
I am with you and give it a 7 for and from my childhood years now so long ago. I also enjoyed it much more than "The Invisible Boy" which even though it has Robby the Robot is otherwise a leaden bore.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
I rate this movie with an 8 because I saw it when it was first shown in movie theaters in the summer of 1954, when I was 7 years old. It was first run on a double feature bill with Republic's THE ATOMIC KID (1954) starring Mickey Rooney, so I saw them both together in 1954.
I must admit this juvenile sci-fi B-movie is a real nostalgia experience for me, but the movie is also very entertaining for family audiences. And TOBOR the Robot really is wonderful, to quote Billy Chapin's character, Gadge!
This, and MGM's THE INVISIBLE BOY (1957) are the greatest "boy and his robot" movies any kid in America in the 1950s could have asked for!
Dejael
8/10. I thought it was quite charming. I really liked the relationship between Tobor and the little boy.
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I watched it last night, and thought it quite sweet. I saw it first about 55 years ago, on Saturday morning "pictures" at the Ritz Ipswich.
You couldn't beat Saturdays, For sixpence you got to watch a cartoon, a serial and a B grade film, Hop a long Cassidy, Oh , just remembered Old Mother Riley came in there somewhere.Then there was that space age hero [cannot think of his name} whose enemy was Emperor Ming [or Mong}
As an extra you got orange peel, apple cores and the like thrown from those in the ninepenny seats above.
Ha !
Ooops, forgot to rate: If i was back 55 years in the past 10/10, these days Hmmm about 7/10 . lets face they hadn't got the know how we have in 2013.
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