ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Richard Kiel, George Nader, George Macready, Hugh Beaumont, and Barbara Nichols star in this cut-rate production about an alien take-over plot.

Kiel portrays Kolos the giant alien, whose mission is to create lookalikes of Earth people. His base of operation is a professor's mansion. There isn't much to praise about this one, other than the fact that the alien machinery isn't too badly made. And male viewers will approve of the gals in the cast. Directed by Hugo Grimaldi.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Krel]

I saw this at the show as a kid. It was doubled billed with "Mutiny In Outer Space".

David.

[Bud Brewster]

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The picture quality is definitely LD (Low Definition . . . ) but here's the trailer and the full movie for anyone who's interested.

The great Dick Tufeld lays on the hokum with a snow shovel in the trailer narration! You'll love it.
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_____________ The Human Duplicators (1965)


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bogmeister]

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I obtained a DVD-R of this film from Sci-Fi Station. Richard Kiel plays the alien Agent Kolos, sent to Earth by a bad galactic empire to create android duplicates of key people. I'm trying to think — wasn't there a similar plot in Futureworld?

Kiel actually has a lot of dialog in this, to my surprise; he was previously in The Phantom Planet (1961), dressed up as a goofy alien. He may have impressed the producer, Hugo Grimaldi — or just impressed him with his height.

Kiel also played a very tall alien in the famous 1962 Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man — but had no dialog in that one. However, note also that he's not even credited on the poster, even though he's the main villain. The flying saucer here is very bad — kind of a moving fancy lamp shade.



Kolos teams up with a local mad scientist played by George MacReady, who I just saw not too long ago in The Alligator People (1959), where he played a . . . mad scientist. Or is it actually an android duplicate of the mad scientist? (You have to keep track of the plot twists).

Unexpectedly, Kiel's alien begins to develop feelings for the mad scientist's daughter (Aww . . . ).

The film is a bit slow in the middle half, but it has quite a bit of action otherwise. This action doesn't always make sense, though. The androids are superhuman, unable to be stopped by doors or by bullets, but in a couple of fight scenes with the hero (George Nader), they seem to fall down and fall apart rather easily — a favorite shot of the director is an android falling to the floor and breaking into pieces. Eerily, this was . . . uh, duplicated in the film Westworld.



MacReady also has a couple of female assistants — androids — and another one named Thor.

Some of these plot threads also reminded me of the later, less known Scream and Scream Again (1970), which also involved duplicating humans. Hugh Beaumont distracts certain viewers if they are familiar with him from a well-known TV series.

There's a big fight scene near the end when Kiel takes on a bunch of androids.

BoG's Score: 4 out of 10



This is an interesting sci-fi curiosity due to the cast. According to Wikipedia, this film was released on VHS with a different title (Jaws of the Alien) after The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) came out, capitalizing on Kiel's new popularity. And this was one of the films skewered on MST3K.



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BoG
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[Bud Brewster]

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I checked the picture quality of the YouTube version of this movie just to see if it was good enough to watch.

Not only is the quality poor, I'm sure I'd be too distracted from plot by all the familiar music the film borrowed. For example, in the opening scene showing the "flying saucer" they used a segment from When Worlds Collide. Add to this the fact that the saucer looks remarkable like a 19th century stained glass lampshade!



At the 8:30 mark they suddenly play a piece from It Came from Outer Space, followed quickly by a badly edited section from This Island Earth. Later I hard and clumsy montage of clips from Destination Moon.

I must admit, however, that this movie has more than it's share of attractive ladies. Barbara Nicoles and Delores Faith are easy on the eyes, as well as several of the android gals.

The two lab assistants in tight nurse's uniforms are both knockouts! They're played by Margaret Teele and Alean 'Bambi' Hamilton. IMDB bills them as "Blond Lab Assistant" and "Brunette Lab Assistant" respectively.

Miss Hamilton has a small role in Angry Red Planet. I could not find a single photo of her — at least not one worth posting.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[tmlindsey]

Well....I gave The Human Duplicators a try...didn't get more than 15 minutes into it before I gave in to one of the saner voices in my head and turned it off. Yikes
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