PRESENTS
16MM MOVIE NITE
ANTEBELLUM ia obsessed with B&W sci-fi and monster films from the 1950s.
please join us for our screening of
ROBOT MONSTER
ORIGINAL 16MM FILM projected on a screen!
NOVEMBER 22ND
7PM
$7 ADVANCE PURCHASE
$10 DAY OF THE SCREENING
NO~HOST BAR
KINKY ART
LIVELY PRE & POST SCREENING CHAT
BEAUTIFUL PATIO FOR PRE & POST SCREENING RELAXATION
ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856~0667
films ever made. Years later, Robot Monster was included as one of the choices in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
starring~
- George Nader, (one time BF to rock hudson)— Roy
- Claudia Barrett — Alice
- Selena Royale — Mother
- John Mylong — The Professor
- Gregory Moffett — Johnny
- Pamela Paulson — Carla
- George Barrows — Ro-Man/Great Guidance
- John Brown — Voice of Ro-Man/Great Guidance
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Twenty-five-year-old writer/director Phil Tucker made Robot Monster in four days for an estimated $16,000.
Except for a few scenes at a house, most footage was filmed outdoors in Bronson Canyon, Griffith Pak and a building site near Dodger Stadium.]
The film's special effects include stock footage used from 1940's One Million B.C., 1951's Lost Continent, and Flight to Mars spliced into the film.
Within the first viewscreen footage is a brief appearance of the Rocketship X-M ship during its initial boarding. A matte painting of ruins of New York City was included from Captive Women.
The budget did not allow for a robot costume as intended so Tucker used his friend George Barrows who had his own gorilla suit to play Ro-Man; Tucker added the helmet.
In the film's opening credits "N. A. Fischer Chemical Products" is given prominent credit for the "Billion Bubble Machine," used in the film as part of Ro-Man's communication device for reporting to his superior.
(ROCK HUDSON & GEORGE NADER)
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