The Creation of the Humanoids

1962

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 42% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 1852 1.9K

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Plot summary

Many years after a nuclear war, the human survivors have created a new society where much of the work done by androids, referred to derisively by humans as "clickers". A police official who is concerned that his sister has become involved with an android is sent to investigate a larger rumor that the androids are developing reason and emotion.

Director

Wesley Barry Photo
Wesley Barry

Top cast

Dudley Manlove Photo
Dudley Manlove as Lagan
Pat Bradley Photo
Pat Bradley as Dr. Moffitt
Richard Vath Photo
Richard Vath as Mark
Erica Elliott Photo
Erica Elliott as Maxine Megan
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775.13 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 1
1.41 GB
1904*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by J-bot6 6 / 10

Science fiction for the thoughtful viewer

Don't let the rating I gave this movie dissuade you. I actually think people who like 'thinking' science fiction should check this out. Some have suggested that this 1962 feature should be remade. If someone did do a remake, they'd have to just accept the fact that many casual viewers would claim that this movie's remake was ripping off Blade Runner, The Questor Tapes, Ghost in the Shell, and the 2000s Battlestar Galactica. However, it looks very much like all of those shows 'borrowed' from this 1962 motion picture. Clearly the concepts in this film were really coming to a head in the 1960s. "Do androids dream of electric sheep" was talking about a lot of this stuff in 1968 (and who knows how long the book took to write). Captain Future of the 1940s and 1950s touched on some of this too. Every time I dig a bit deeper, I find out that someone's tackled many of these concepts. Heck, even Fred Saberhagen's Berserker novels tread similar territory. I've written this in such a way that I don't give too much away. I think the best thing is to see the film for yourself. Be prepared though, since certain aspects of it are certainly dated. The preliminary robot designs during the film's intro are primitive looking (and almost comical). And the pacing is somewhat difficult at times. Stick with it though. The thesis comes out in the end and it's pretty entertaining to watch it unfold. This is a movie that could actually be done as a stage play. To that effect, I really enjoyed the sets and the lighting. With such a deep message, I felt that even more dramatic lighting and higher contrast ratios would have added even more gravity to certain scenes. So yes -- check this out. It must have come as quite a shock to audiences of the time. For audiences today, it covers topics that we're quite used to so the impact won't be as great. Still pretty neat though.
Reviewed by richardchatten 6 / 10

Rise of the Machines

Sixty years after it was originally shot this unique movie continues to divide the still tiny number of people that have actually seen it, from Susan Sontag & Andy Warhol - the latter quoted by David Bourdon in the 5 December 1964 edition of 'The Village Voice as calling it "the best movie he has ever seen" - to Leonard Maltin, who gives it a 'BOMB' rating.Obviously screenwriter Jay Simms knew his sci-fi, and it remains one of the very few sci-fi movies accurately to reflect fifties magazine fiction and visually to evoke the cover art of the era. With expressionistic sets stylishly lit by veteran cameraman Hal Mohr, it resembles one of the preachier episodes of 'The Twilight Zone' or 'Out of the Unknown' with it's allegory of bigotry (which anticipates later more prestigious productions like 'Guess Whose Coming to Dinner' and 'Blade Runner'), and manages to compress an enormous ammount of allusion into just an hour and a quarter. The League of Flesh & Blood, for example, wear Confederate-style uniforms and are pointedly dismissed by the sister "in rapport with a Clicker" in language that could easily apply to the Klan ("You hold meetings. Wear ridiculous clothes. You tell each other how superior you are to the robots. Because you know we're not!"). Meanwhile accusations of electoral fraud are still arousing passion sixty years after Kennedy's highly questionable election victory over Nixon in 1960.The wonderful dialogue is regularly remarked upon, my personal favourite being "the only crime that can be committed against a robot is vandalism"!
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