# Old movie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie/785595>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 30, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie/785595 "2017-04-30T19:33:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mowgli666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mowgli666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mowgli666)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie/785595/1 "2017-04-30T19:33:20Z")

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I’m trying to remember a name of a movie about a robot that I watched in the mid 70’s. Here’s what I remember: space movie, man controls robot with chip behind his neck, robot gets control of chip, robot kills people trying to be human, robot is very tall, long robotic eyes, white or transparent body, possibly in a space lab of some kind, was at the theaters…

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie/785595/2 "2017-04-30T20:05:17Z")

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**Moderator Action**

Welcome to the SDMB, **Mowgli666**.

Questions about artistic works like movies belong on our Cafe Society forum. I will move this thread for you.

Moving thread from GQ to CS.

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**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie/785595/3 "2017-04-30T20:07:00Z")

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[Saturn 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-kV-DZG0ss) has all that, but it was from 1980.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie/785595/4 "2017-04-30T20:33:30Z")

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> [@brossa](#):
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> [Saturn 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-kV-DZG0ss) has all that, but it was from 1980.

Maybe the OP saw part one or two.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie/785595/5 "2017-04-30T22:21:00Z")

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Disney’s _The Black Hole_?