I've just seen a really nice print of INVISIBLE BOY. It's very much a kids' film with a fairly pedestrian plot, but then I realised that it foreshadowed all those "computer out of control" movies that followed in the 1960s (COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT) and 1970s (DEMON SEED) and even later stuff like TERMINATOR.
Also, I loved the scene where Timmy had just rebuilt Robbie and he was taking it around the scientists, obviously looking for a pat on the back, and they just all kind of sniffed and went "oh, you built a robot" like it was nothing. Every kid just has to identify with that experience.
Overall, INVISIBLE BOY is an of-its-time but entertaining sf movie. Great to see Robbie the Robot in action after his star turn in FORBIDDEN PLANET. Look carefully for the framed photo on the wall of Robbie emerging from the FP saucer ...
Also, I loved the scene where Timmy had just rebuilt Robbie and he was taking it around the scientists, obviously looking for a pat on the back, and they just all kind of sniffed and went "oh, you built a robot" like it was nothing. Every kid just has to identify with that experience.
Overall, INVISIBLE BOY is an of-its-time but entertaining sf movie. Great to see Robbie the Robot in action after his star turn in FORBIDDEN PLANET. Look carefully for the framed photo on the wall of Robbie emerging from the FP saucer ...