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Released
1953 · FILM

Robot Monster

“Moon monsters launch attack against Earth! How can science meet the menace of astral assassins? New Science Fiction Thrills!”

Directed by
Phil Tucker
Written by
Wyott Ordung
Runtime
66 min
ComedyFamilyHorror

Synopsis

Ro‑Man is an alien robot resembling a gorilla wearing a diving helmet who is dispatched to Earth with the objective of eradicating all human life. While carrying out this mission, Ro‑Man falls in love with one of the six remaining humans and experiences conflict between his programmed directive to kill her and his emotional attachment to her.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Merrill G WhiteShot by Jack GreenhalghScored by Elmer Bernstein

Box Office

1953 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 63× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.0M

Budget$16K
Worldwide gross$1.0M
break-even (2.5×)

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