The Human Duplicators (1965)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 1993
SYNOPSIS: A well-respected electronics scientist is caught stealing from his own facility, the sixth this month. It all seems to point to robotics, a.k.a. cybernetics. The hero is called in to investigate. His investigations lead him to a secluded mansion, home of the world's leading authority on cybernetics and his lovely blind niece. Eventually, our hero learns too much, and is captured by the hulking alien who lives there. This alien has replaced the scientists with exact, robotic duplicates and will eventually do the same to world leaders. While in a basement dungeon with the real cybernetics doctor (the one he met earlier was a fake), he learns that the only thing that can shut down the robots is a special ray-machine located in the laboratory. The hero escapes with the help of the blind niece and, in a dramatic battle scene, uses the ray on the dummies, who fall apart. The alien, whose heart really wasn't in the conquest since he'd fallen in love with the niece, returns to his home planet to accept the punishment for his failure.
Incidentally, in case you were wondering where they could have possibly gotten the alternate title Jaws of the Alien, it's because the big alien was played by Richard Kiel of James Bond/The Spy Who Loved Me fame. This film was renamed after that success.
Incidentally, in case you were wondering where they could have possibly gotten the alternate title Jaws of the Alien, it's because the big alien was played by Richard Kiel of James Bond/The Spy Who Loved Me fame. This film was renamed after that success.
Bryan Cassidy
Hugo Grimaldi
