synopsis
a lonely road in the California desert, a driver is owned by a strange alien entity. Suddenly, the man has one goal: LABCENTRAL government observatory and its director, Dr. Eliot. Meanwhile, a huge mass coming cubic space has emerged the ocean and heads toward the cities, absorbing all energy sources in its path. Any alien invasion is underway? The countdown has begun.
Sheet
Director: Kurt Neumann / Producers: Irving Block, Louis DeWitt and Jack Rabin, for 20th Century Fox / Writer: Lawrence L. Goldman based on a story by Irving Block / Photo: Karl Struss / Music: Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter / Editor: Jodie Copeland / Special Effects Irving Block, Louis DeWitt, Jack Rabin, William Reinhold / Cast: Jeff Morrow (Dr. Leslie Gaskell), Barbara Lawrence (Vera Hunter), John Emery (Dr. Hubbell Eliot), George O'Hanlon (Dr. Arnold Culver) Morris Ankrum (Dr. Albert Stern), Kenneth Alton (McCrary), John Parrish (General Perry), Jose Gonzales Gonzales (Manuel Ramirez), Richard Harrison (Pilot) ... / Country and Year: USA 1957 / Time and technical data: 79 min. BW 2.35:1. (VOSE)
Comment
"Kronos" (1957) is considered a classic of B sci-fi of the 50's. A little gem that despite some failures of implementation, effects and plot is well developed and holds the viewer in suspense from beginning to its end, that is when the story weakens, falling in the most prototypical sci- fi of the era.
To begin the film brings together a handful of usual science fiction such as: Kurt Neumann, Irving Block, Louis DeWitt, Jack Rabin, Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter, Jeff Morrow and Morris Ankrum, labor of many large the genre: "She Devil" (1957), "The Fly" (1958), "K-1 Rocket" (1950), "The Atomic Submarine" (1960), "War of the Satellites" (1958), "The Invisible Boy" (1957), "Unknown World" (1951), "World Without End "(1956)," The Phantom Planet "(1961)," Behemoth the Sea Monster "(1959), The Man from Planet X (1951)," Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "(1961)," This Island Earth "(1955)," The Giant Claw "(1955), Zombies of Mora Tau (1957) ... And though the result is not perfect, they create a story where they appear almost all the topics of gender (alien invasion, meteor about to crash into the earth, possessions, alien mind control on humans, advanced technology, cataclysmic destruction, pseudoscience and technobabble, a super computer, atomic bombs, ...) without the viewer will burst neurons. In contrast, entertains ... A lot. Because deep
"Kronos", like many other science fiction films of the decade of the 50 is about a threat from outer space and must be fought by scientists and the military (in close relationship. See what it says scientist turn is believed to feet and letter for the army. Something common in films of the era). However, there is something that makes it stand out from the others. And it is the nature of the threat that makes this film unique: the invader is a devourer of unstoppable energy that comes from outer space (need energy because they have exhausted the resources of their planet) as futuristic Ikea wardrobe. Its mission is to suck all the power and atomic energy on the planet, until it was dry. Indeed
Hulk is a bit of junk. Ugly as himself. But for me personally in this lies its charm. It's different to what we are accustomed. Irving Block say about his creation: "I wanted to Kronos was anthropomorphic, and it seems a robot, but also to look like a piece of machinery. I spent much time thinking about it ... At one point it looked like a construction made by Picasso, but it was gradually simplified until finally everything became just a black box. " It is true that special effects are pretty bad (combining models, many archival footage and cartoons) and to do advance a giant energy store with a huge cylindrical legs can cause a laugh but, I repeat, what matters is the global product (do not we stand in minutiae). It is evident that "Kronos" (that's how the contraption called because the main character reminds the giant monster ...?) is a kind of "Godzilla" technology that destroys everything in its path, but without the grace and the salt of his colleague Japan.
The problem is when, as in many of the products of the time, you have to destroy the invader and must be removed from the sleeve a great theory that does away. And therein lies the failure of "Kronos": the last ten minutes. It appears as if by magic Atterberg theory of changes of polarity and other odds and ends (when I checked Atterberg's theory deals with fluid and soil mechanics). A blackboard, chalk, and we have discovered the Achilles heel the bug. But hey, if in as many poor quality films they have forgiven the minutia, here we shall not be less.
The actions more than worthy: a Jeff Morrow, like the protagonist of "This Island Earth" knows everything, handles helicopter ... and roll in the sands of a beach in Mexico with his girlfriend / assistant Vera Hunter ( Barbara Lawrence) emulating the famous beach scene in "From Here To Eternity" (1953), relatively speaking, there are many, of course. The nice doctor Culver (George O'Hanlon), responsible for managing the super computer "Susie" (Synchro Unifying Sinometric Integrating Equitensor) and the tormented Dr. Eliot abductee, played by John Emery (how that man sweat!).
In final accounts, a small gem of Series B which suffers from having a budget, given the grandeur of the subject. Ideal for a remake of the means available today.
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