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Actors: Jeff Murrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Kronos
A group of the world's top scientists observe an asteroid heading for the Earth. When the military is notified, nuclear missiles are sent to blow it up. To everyone's shock, the asteroid withstands the nuclear assault. It plunges into the Pacific off the coast of Mexico. Beautiful Vera Hunter and handsome Dr. Leslie Gaskell head to Mexico to study the asteroid. Vera and Leslie are in love, except he is too distracted by his science to pay attention to his girlfriend. He is harboring a suspicion that the object underwater is no asteroid but an alien spaceship.

Soon his nightmare comes to life, as a colossal tri-pod emerges from the waters of the Pacific and starts sucking the Earth of all of its energy. Soon it's named Kronos after the mythological monster. Meanwhile, another scientist – Dr. Hubbell Eliot – is controlled by an alien force and forced to sabotage all the human efforts to stop Kronos. When Leslie and Vera manage to free Dr. Eliot from alien mind control, Dr. Eliot shares his intimate knowledge of the invaders' purpose. Apparently, these aliens have learned to convert energy to matter. As a result of this scientific breakthrough, their civilization squandered all of their energy resources. Now they sent Kronos to our planet to harvest all of its energy until nothing is left. To make matters worse the Pentagon is trying to kill Kronos by bombarding it with more nuclear weapons, which only makes it grow stronger and bigger. Will Dr. Gaskell and the future Mrs. Gaskell be able to stop Kronos?

--Garfield Durang, Resident Scholar




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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%



**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Invasion from human defender POV? - overt invasion (very visible of monsters/aliens)
War and Invasion Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - scientist
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) crewcut/very short
Body type - muscular (man)
Unclothed? - Chest
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - blonde
Hair style - (woman) long wavy
Body type - ample chest & buttocks (female)
Unclothed? - very tight clothes
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - An "It".
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 90%-100%

Setting
Earth setting: - 20th Century (1900-1950)
Takes place on Earth? Yes
In Space? - asteroid
Misc settings - fort/castle - lab

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
Tone of movie - fearful
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - vauge references only - kissing
Check here if B&W Yes
Any profanity? - None
Kinds of F/X - Things that change shape/morph - exploding vehicles - exploding bombs - exotic spaceships - exotic aliens
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical
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