Hi, everyone. Will here. If you asked me to close my eyes and conjure the iconic images of cinema history,

I might think of Harold Lloyd dangling from the clock tower,

Charlie Chaplin winding through the factory gears,

Janet Lee stretching out her arm as she collapses in the shower,

and of course, a gorilla in a diving

helmet traipsing through Bronson Canyon. The gorilla is Roman, the star of 1953's Robot Monster.

With the swiftness of a deadly cosmic ray, the Earth is invaded by indestructible moon monsters. Their ghastly mission,

death for all humans.

What astounding technical developments are being made to protect mankind.

Robot Monster brings you an actual preview of the devastating forces of our future.

Robot Monster told the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth, in which the last humans mounted

a desperate campaign of resistance against their alien oppressors.

Roman is the film's anti-hero, an alien invader who finds himself gradually swayed by the human's capacity for love.

Here he is in one of the film's most iconic scenes.

There is one thing you do not understand great guidance.

You reject the plan?

I wish to make an estimate of my own.

You think for yourself is to be like the human.

Yes, to be like the human.

To laugh, feel, want. Why are these things not in the plan?

If you know one thing about Robot Monster, you know that Roman has the body of a gorilla with a diving helmet and antenna on his head.

He was played by George Barrows, an actor who owned a guerrilla suit, and was thus called upon to play guerrillas in many low-budget films.

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