The INVISIBLE BOY

The INVISIBLE BOY
   Film (1957). Pan/MGM. Dir Herman Hoffman, starring Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster, Harold J. Stone. Screenplay Cyril Hume, based on "The Invisible Boy" (1956; vt "The Brain Child") by Edmund COOPER. 90 mins. B/w.
   In this well written and made film for children, a 10-year-old boy (Eyer) assembles a ROBOT from pieces brought back from the future by a time-traveller, and ends up with Robby the Robot, who had won the hearts of audiences in FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956). Robby comes under the influence of a malign, fully aware supercomputer - probably the first such in movies - and somewhat irresponsibly makes the boy an INVISIBILITY potion. Moreimportantly, he helps the COMPUTER - which is planning to conquer the world - by implanting electronic receivers in the brains of prominent men, but redeems himself at the end when he ignores the computer's command to kill the boy and instead destroys the computer, with the implicit moral that machines shaped like men are more trustworthy than machines shaped like MACHINES.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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