I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

From my favorite movies..

Boring, long, and too preachy.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

First of all let me say the title of my review is not for the film itself but for the excellent blu-ray 3D edition that has returned the film its brightness. Superb colors, amazing 3d deepness quality. This IS true 3d and one of the best 3d restorations I have ever seen that is a joy for the viewer. This does not mean the film has other interests apart from the visual one. Filmed in George air force base near California, it has an interesting - and atypical for a sci-fi movie- plot. In fact, the opening scene in the cryogenic research lab. is one of the best frightening ones I have seen in movies. Do not expect monsters or aliens here but a more subliminal, whodunit mistery story that frightens in a more subtle, permanent way. I also like the fact that many scientific artifacts and tests done in the base are shown and briefly explained -although some of them are not too accuracy real like radiation travelling straight- like being in a sort of scientific tour. That probably will defraud viewers who expect a terror film, which is not, at least in its typical form: here, terror flows underneath. Ivan Tors, who wrote the script, was a sci-fi fan and avid reader of Scientific American, so he did not want to do a monster film but one scientifically accurated and with a realistic futuristic basis. The secret base where the action takes place is a sort Nasa precedent four years before it was created in 1958 developing a space station that enables man to live in space. And, by the way, it does not takes place in outer space -as both opening and ending titles may suggest- but in an underground base in the New Mexico desert. Nice job by Richard Egan as a security expert who comes to investigate several murders and sabotage in the base, Herbert Marshall as chief scientist and the rest of the cast, taking their roles seriously. If you have the chance to watch this film in a big 3D tv screen you will really enjoy it and I do strongly recommend it. Also not to miss the blu-ray 3D extras that include interesting interviews with director Herbert L. Strock explaining how he could film a 3D movie having monocular vision (like André de Toth, who also directed 3D movie House of wax) or finding Tors script too documentary toned, and with master 3D cameraman Lothrop Worth and a blink of the highly interesting restoration process (where not only the bright colors and deepness can be seen but also the editing process of removing film marks and stains or cutting unaccurate angle views such as hanging microphones seen by mistake and the difficulties finding left side negative print -that had been missing for years-and the hard process to manage matching it properly with the remaining right eye negative, since it was very deteriorated). You can see in NOVAC computer a precedent of Hal 2001. Not for everyone, you will enjoy this film if you prefer feeling frightened more than watching it. If you like this film you will probably enjoy Forbidden planet as well. As bonus, a rarely seen tandem-rotor McCulloch MC-4C helicopter appears in the film. One of the first movis with an helicoper in it. And finally, for those who are interested in ancient mithology and history, Gog and Magog ("the land of Gog") are respectively the names of the governor and the region linked in the genesis to the apochalipsis and final judgement. So you may have an idea of the roles they play in the film. Final note: in the original trailer -added as an extra in the 3D blu-ray edition- we can see an aparently deleted scene: chemist scientist fiancée approaching her stealthily. By the way, guess who put the atomic powder in the device?

I Remember seeing the right eye print of Gog on t.c.m. years ago.It was rather slow moving.Today I finally got to see the film in it's restored 3D version on Blu-ray.It was ratio at 1.66:1 ratio.The story is very intellectual,so, there is strong character development and barley any actions.It came from out space had minimum of character development with action and was a faster pace.It doesn't make it bad film. If your like me and get cluster phobia ,the total focus in the film ,in the compound through out the whole picture might bring it out Wearing 3D glass it amplifies it more .Because your being drawn into that well insulated compound.The out door sequences you get the relief.The whole story takes place As Constance Dowling is showing Richard Egan the staff and the compound,when all this mysterious bad things are going on,since D.r.Hubertus and his assistant Helen was mysteriously murdered.There are two Robots in this compound Gog and Magog.They start causing problems. Why are they doing it ? Why are things going out of control?One one scene you see these two soldiers looking at a special telescope that looks like a natural vision cameras in disguise .The actress,Valeri Vernon ,who plays one of the wife of the doctors,weather hair platinum blond gray.Where they trying to make her look older .They did not put enough old make up to look real old,or was it's just a effect? This is a cold war film .We all know who the enemy was .It was implied, the communist spies from Russia .There is a 3D made interviews on the disc of the Restoration of this film ,where the head of the 3D archive discusses it.A 2003 video tape of Herbert L. Stock ,who had near flat eye problems .I'm wondering if he was aware of the cure for this problem that eye doctor offer ,even that time.There is also an interview with the cinema photographer Lothrop B. Worth, at the old folk home where he discuses his involvement in the development of Natural Vision 3D.Worth buy or Renting. 03/05/16

A good healthy dose of Cold War paranoia is permeated throughout this film entitled Gog. Gog is one of two robots controlled by a giant computer in a space project the other being Magog. But someone has seized control of the giant computer which goes by the name of Nowac and the two robots are reeking havoc on our space program which was not yet under the control of NASA as NASA was not created until 1958 and this film came out in 1954.Richard Egan is both scientist and security agent sent out to the desert where this project is to find out what's been going on as a series of accidents. Already there is another scientist Constance Dowling who is also a security agent, but there incognito. She can't find an explanation as to who or what might be a traitor.It's both a who and a what. The who is our enemies, unnamed to be sure but we know it's the Russians who else has supersonic planes that have penetrated our air defenses. They've got control of Nowac and with it control of Gog and Magog so we have no traitor in the ranks of the scientists.Seeing the kind of sophistication the Russians have put into the sabotage, no doubt everyone left the film saying we ought to beef up security and give the military what they need.For a low budget B film, the special effects weren't bad. Gog and Magog look like more sophisticated Daleks, but Daleks were pretty scary on the Dr. Who series. Egan, Dowling, Herbert Marshall who played the top scientist and the rest of the cast gave sincere performances. Gog is most definitely a film for the paranoid at heart.

This film has three acts. In the first two scientists are killed by a mysterious unseen hand and an undercover security officer arrives to investigate. This part isn't too badly done, the scientist and his assistant are frozen to death. Frozen so cold in fact that their bodies shatter when they fall over which, because of budgetary constraints, they do off-screen. For act two the security officer and his undercover girlfriend security agent take us on a guided tour of the base, meeting a mixed bag of identical scientist types who lecture at great length their experiments, show us short clips of stock footage by way of illustration, and then explain and why they could not have been the mysterious killer and, to tell you the truth, the film almost grinds to a halt with tedium. This procession of (not too outlandish)ideas may have been pure "Gosh-wow! The future is going to be so Cooool!" at the time it was made but it all looks dated and plodding now.Act Three. Action! - slowly segueing into hilarious ineptitude. More people get bumped off! The chemist who was analysing some mysterious 'atomic powder' found in a suspect device is poisoned by a pot plant so radioactive that simply putting a glass dome over it cuts most of the clicking of the hero's Geiger counter. The acrobats in their anti-gravity vests made of a 'new alloy of aluminium' are spun to death in their space-suits. The head of base security is somethinged to death by sound waves "Get out! Sound waves at this intensity can kill!" Actually I'm not really sure WHAT happens to him, his shirt sort of explodes while he is trying to cut the cables to a set of electric tuning forks and then he falls over.(Just why he is trying to cut the cables to a set of electric tuning forks is not really clear either, but as he was such a terrible actor I was just willing him to die by this point so I wouldn't have to look at him any more and didn't care about the details). More action! A robot goes on the rampage in the computer room. "Can you use a flame thrower?" asks its creator in an impenetrably thick German accent while keeping it at bay with a short stick, "Yes!" cries our hero. "Melt him down! It'z the only vay to stop him!" Then, in the heat of the moment, the scientist's accent goes into hyper-drive and I have absolutely NO idea what he says next. I have played that section of the movie over and over again and it still sounds like: "Time bext zoim - in demzoim down ze hall - hurry up!" but whatever he does say our hero understands and he rushes off - that or he'd figured the odds had just turned against him. Killer robot AND insane babbling German scientist? Stuff it, I'm off. But no! He returns with the flame thrower. Unfortunately the mad German scientist has tripped over a claw hammer lying in the middle off the floor and been strungled* to death by the robot. Suddenly the alarm sounds! "The reactor!" The other killer berserk robot is in the reactor room removing the control rod. That's right. THE control rod. This atomic pile has a control room with a little lidded wooden box mounted on the wall. Open the lid and you can pull out THE control rod which starts a carbon arc (like you used to find in old projectors) and throws the hilariously inept 'Atomic Indicator' dangerously into the dark beige. Our heroes arrive set fire to the robot and replace the rod. Whew! Saved! But! What's this? Coming through the door is killer robot number one who has busted out of the other lab!!! - and the heroes' flame thrower is out of gas! But, just when things look really bad... (for the heroes I mean, the movie has been looking really bad for ages) ...in through the doors bursts aged, venerable, head scientist, Herbert Marshall waving ANOTHER flame thrower (every nuclear power plant should have at least two). Unfortunately his flame thrower doesn't work so well. Just when... etc. The stock footage of USAF planes we saw taking off earlier shoot down a mysterious fibre-glass aircraft which has been flying about overhead eavesdropping on the supercomputer and hijacking it to commit the murders.Now there's a really daft idea. I mean can you imagine anyone trying to take over someone else's computer from a distance. Absurd it could never happen Buy Viaaaagraaaa! <1/22???>?"?"?IN??~???? ????????????$3999? ale ntino??????? $990*Strungled v. To simulate the act of strangulation by clutching the stranglator to your own throat, while pretending to struggle to be free. An act commonly seen performed in any cheap movie containing a giant octopus.