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5.3To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor's 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather's robot. And now Gadge's captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend. They must face a mechanical monstrosity bent on a killing rampage of revenge and destruction.
Cast
- Charles Drake as Dr. Ralph Harrison
- Karin Booth as Janice Roberts
- Billy Chapin as Brian 'Gadge' Roberts
- Taylor Holmes as Prof. Arnold Nordstrom
- Steven Geray as The Foreign Spy-Chief
- Henry Kulky as Paul (Spy Henchman)
Themes
- spacecraft
- cold war
- professor
- space travel
- meteor
- rocket
- space
- reporter
- robot
- explosion
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Ratings
IMDb
5.2/10
973 votes
- Year
- 1954
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- 1 nomination
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Lee Sholem
- Screenwriter
- Philip MacDonald
- Cast member
- William Schallert
- Composer
- Howard Jackson
- Duration
- 77
- FilmAffinity ID
- 843063
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Tobor the Great poster.jpg
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- publication date
- 1954-09-01
- title
- Tobor the Great
- production designer
- Hugh Hunt
- distributed by
- Netflix
- color
- black-and-white
- Commons category
- Tobor the Great
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