Need help to ID old sci fi movie

jonny5

Sr Member

• Oct 15, 2010

• #1

I'm trying to recall/learn the name of a 50's or 60's SciFi movie that I saw repeatedly on the ABC Saturday afternoon movie back in the 70's.

All I remember is at the end a silver robot saves some people by carring them thru a river of lava. The robot succumbs to the extreme heat just feet from safety and the people get to 'shore' leaving him to be swept away.

If anyone can ID this from my meager snippet of plot, I would be truly grateful.

 

SmilingOtter

Master Member

• Oct 15, 2010

• #2

Planeta Bur/Planet of Storms?

YouTube - Death of Robot John

 

jonny5

Sr Member

• Oct 15, 2010

• #3

Wow! Thanks SmilingOtter!

That sure looks like the movie, down to the fifties-style tail-finned bubble-topped hover-car.

Obviously I saw a dubbed version but I would have sworn there was a female in a short silver lame' dress hitching a ride on the robot across the lava.

I must have crosswired that memory with the cinematic poster for Forbidden Planet.

 

division 6

Master Member

• Oct 15, 2010

• #4

LOL

I started watching that the other evening on line but it's was called Voyage to the Planet to Prehistoric Women.

 

DarkHelmet

Master Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Oct 15, 2010

• #5

Got to love the RPF!! This place is better than any other forum.

Several years ago, I asked about a movie I used to watch on the Saturday Afternoon Creature Feature show.

All I remembered was snakes following a guy in the swamp and biting him in the face when he went to drink water and a skull with hair sitting on top of quick sand in the end of the movie.

That movie used to scare the crap out of me. Came here and within a couple of minutes, found out it was "The Death Curse of Tartu".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm_3-o6QWuk