Tobor the Great (1953)

Directed by

Lee Sholem

Genre

science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A scientist quits his government job because he thinks the way they treat spaceship pilots is cruel. His colleague builds a friendly robot named Tobor, which becomes a companion to the scientist's young son. Together they stop foreign spies from stealing the robot.

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What happens

Tobor the Great (a.k.a. Tobor) is a 1954 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Richard Goldstone, directed by Lee Sholem, and starring Charles Drake, Karin Booth, and Billy Chapin. The film was written by Carl Dudley and Philip MacDonald and was distributed by Republic Pictures. The film's storyline involves Dr. Ralph Harrison, who resigns his government post in protest against the inhumane treatment being inflicted upon spaceship pilots. His colleague, Professor Nordstrom, develops an alternative: a robot that he names "Tobor" (the reverse anagram of "robot"), which soon becomes a friend and playmate to Harrison's young son, "Gadge". Ralph and his colleagues, along with Gadge and Tobor, prevent foreign agents from using Tobor for their own nefarious purposes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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