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The Invisible Boy is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Herman Hoffman released in USA on 18 october 1957 with Richard Eyer
The Invisible Boy (1957)
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Add to a movie listThe Invisible Boy (aka S.O.S Spaceship) is a 1957 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Herman Hoffman, and starring Richard Eyer and Philip Abbott. It is the second film appearance of Robby the Robot, the science fiction character who "stole the show" in Forbidden Planet (1956), also released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. According to an implied, subtle back story in The Invisible Boy, the robot is the same character as that in Forbidden Planet, which is set in the 23rd century; Robby is brought back to the film's mid-20th century era by time travel.
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The Invisible Boy is a mixture of lighthearted playfulness and menacing evil. As it begins, ten-year-old Timmie Merinoe (Eyer) seems only to want a playmate. After he is mysteriously invested with superior intelligence, he reassembles a robot that his father and other scientists had been ready to discard as unrepairable junk. No one pays much attention to the robot, named Robby, after Timmie gets it operating again, until Timmie's mother becomes angry when her son is taken aloft by a huge powered kite that Robby has built at Timmie's urging.Actors
Richard Eyer
(Timmie Merrinoe)
Philip Abbott
(Dr. Tom Merrinoe)
Diane Brewster
(Mary Merrinoe)
Harold J. Stone
(Gen. Swayne)
Robert H. Harris
(Prof. Frank Allerton)
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