This film starts out very dramatically, with a Voice quoting Scriptures outside a Pennsylvania town, followed with a later appearance of a heavier-than-air "airship," 19th-Cantury high-tech.
Vincent Price makes a grand Robur. He is a larger than life hero with a fatal flaw, a monomaniacal crusader who wants to establish world peace.
Possible spoilers follow: The Roburian philosophy is to enforce peace by superior weaponry, which he demonstrates by intruding his Albatross into a battle by two armies he happens to spot. After bombing the whey out of both sides, Robur believes he's done something constructive, though he probably did more damage to both sides than they might have done to each other.
The film begins as an epic, but slowly goes downhill to where it ends as another action film. Robur, though, keeps up his ideals to the end. Despite some juvenile touches, it's not at all bad.
Vincent Price makes a grand Robur. He is a larger than life hero with a fatal flaw, a monomaniacal crusader who wants to establish world peace.
Possible spoilers follow: The Roburian philosophy is to enforce peace by superior weaponry, which he demonstrates by intruding his Albatross into a battle by two armies he happens to spot. After bombing the whey out of both sides, Robur believes he's done something constructive, though he probably did more damage to both sides than they might have done to each other.
The film begins as an epic, but slowly goes downhill to where it ends as another action film. Robur, though, keeps up his ideals to the end. Despite some juvenile touches, it's not at all bad.