It's also not one of the best acted films, but the acting is enthusiastic. Every level of campiness, eccentrism, pomposity and emotional excess is used, as well as the absence of any emotion as well. The film starts with an emotionless yet domineering Richard Kiel making his way into the laboratory of pompous scientist George Macready to manipulate him into the creation of androids. George Nader, Hugh Beaumont and Dolores Faith are the seemingly normal ones, and Barbara Nichols as Nader's girlfriend the most abnormal, a constantly chatty assistant whose intelligence remains in question and also just how she got her position and attracted Nader.
That being said, she's also the funniest, so over the top and brassy that you wonder how often she's polished. But that doesn't mean that she's right for the film, and the laughs she gets are definitely at her expense. Faith speaks, but she's so monotone and one dimensional, thus barely present. The scenes between Kiel and Macready are genuinely funny because both are extremely serious. Sets are colorful but fake looking, and the film looks rather cheap as a result. But the discussion of androids being necessary to create a master race is disturbing and timely, and even a bit before its time. Too bad that the script really stinks.
That being said, she's also the funniest, so over the top and brassy that you wonder how often she's polished. But that doesn't mean that she's right for the film, and the laughs she gets are definitely at her expense. Faith speaks, but she's so monotone and one dimensional, thus barely present. The scenes between Kiel and Macready are genuinely funny because both are extremely serious. Sets are colorful but fake looking, and the film looks rather cheap as a result. But the discussion of androids being necessary to create a master race is disturbing and timely, and even a bit before its time. Too bad that the script really stinks.