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    Kronos (1957)

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    What appears to be a meteorite crashes into the sea off the coast of Mexico.

    After a few days and nights of mysterious lights and noises, a giant machine – ‘Kronos’, which is made of metallic cubes – emerges from the ocean. It turns out it’s the creation of an alien race which is here to syphon energy from the earth.

    Kronos begins a destructive march across the country, draining power from everything it encounters – including an atom bomb which the Air Force drops on it – and the more energy it absorbs the more fantastically large the machine becomes.

    The story is clever and involving and the plot is unique.

    The science is wrong, of course, and the scientists (John Emery, Jeff Morrow, George O’Hanlon and Morris Ankrum) are laughable, but the special effects – by FX wizards Jack Rabin, Irving Block, and Louis DeWitt – are superb for the time for such a low-budget film.

    Dr Leslie Gaskell
    Jeff Morrow
    Vera Hunter
    Barbara Lawrence
    Dr Hubbell Eliot
    John Emery
    Dr Arnold Culver 
    George O’Hanlon
    Dr Albert Stern
    Morris Ankrum
    McCrary (pickup driver)
    Kenneth Alton
    General Perry
    John Parrish
    Manuel Ramirez
    Jose Gonzales-Gonzales
    Pilot
    Richard Harrison
    Nurse
    Marjorie Stapp
    Air Force General
    Robert Shayne
    Weather Operator
    Don Eitner
    Sergeant
    Gordon Mills

    Director
    Kurt Neumann

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