Starring Michel Lemoine, Maria Pia Luzi, Jany Clair, Marco Guglielmi, Piero Palermini
Directed by Romano Ferrara
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
After the body of a young man disappears in a plane crash, he's sighted at numerous acts of sabotage on the world's atomic and space programs, replaced by robot duplicates from outer space.
An intriguing-sounding science fiction film from Italy that I had never heard of before, the picture at times feels like a tribute to the American sci-fi films of the 1950s, filmed in black and white, and featuring a flying saucer, and sometimes gory skin-melting effects. However, it is extremely slow-paced, and takes some patience as the primary robot played by Lemoine dallies with a couple of lovely ladies while trying to track down a professor who's perfected a paralyzing nerve gas. Nevertheless, Armando Trovajoli provides a very fitting eerie music score, and the special effects are quite decent for the era. I don't think I can necessarily recommend the film, but it's a nifty find for classic sci-fi film enthusiasts.
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