War of the Robots (film)

War of the Robots
War of the Robots
Directed by	Alfonso Brescia
Screenplay by	Alfonso Brescia; Aldo Crudo;
Starring	Yanti Somer; Malisa Longo; Aldo Canti; Ines Pellegrini;
Cinematography	Silvio Fraschetti
Edited by	Carlo Reali
Music by	Marcello Giombini
Production; companies	Koala Cinematografica; Nais Film;
Distributed by	Koala
Running time	99 minutes
Country	Italy

War of the Robots (Italian title: La guerra dei robot) is a 1978 Italian science fiction film directed by Alfonso Brescia. It was released internationally as Reactor.^[2] The plot follows an alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.

Cast

Antonio Sabato as Captain John Boyd
Yanti Somer as Julie
Malisa Longo as Lois
Giacomo Rossi Stuart as Roger
Aldo Canti as Kuba the Alien
Licinia Lentini as Commander King's assistant
Venantino Venantini as Paul
Jacques Herlin as Professor Carr
Ines Pellegrini as Sonia

Reception

Fantastic Musings found the movie to be bad.^[3] Salon noted that it was part of a series of B-movie Star Wars rip-offs from director Brescia.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "La guerra dei robot (1978)" (in Italian). Archivo del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
^ Francis, R.D. (January 26, 2019). "In Space No One Can Hear the Pasta Over-Boiling: Alfonso Brescia and the '80s Italian Spacesploitation Invasion". Medium. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
^ "The War of the Robots (1978)". 2 February 2018.
^ "Spaghetti space wars of 1979". 22 May 2002.

External links

War of the Robots at IMDb
War of the Robots is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

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[archivo-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "La guerra dei robot (1978)" (in Italian). Archivo del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved May 16, 2016.

[2] Francis, R.D. (January 26, 2019). "In Space No One Can Hear the Pasta Over-Boiling: Alfonso Brescia and the '80s Italian Spacesploitation Invasion". Medium. Retrieved September 22, 2020.

[3] "The War of the Robots (1978)". 2 February 2018.

[4] "Spaghetti space wars of 1979". 22 May 2002.

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