A typical low budget sci-fi flick of its era, originally envisioned in 3D. It begins with a good set-piece in which a couple of scientists are killed in their laboratory - maybe deservedly, given the cruel experiments on animals they're conducting - before moving into a talkier investigation. Eventually, our wooden heroes realise that a couple of robots have gone awry, leading to a fun, perilous climax. An early entry in the 'killer robot' sub-genre of movies, it's very dated, but perhaps that's part of the fun.

In this 50s sci-fi thriller, some mysterious deaths occur at an ultra-top secret US base--a base that is controlled by a super-computer. Richard Egan is an agent sent to investigate and even after he arrives, several of the staff members are killed by equipment at this research facility. Egan thinks perhaps some sort of spacecraft or airplane above the base is responsible and the film takes on sinister Cold War overtones.

The film looks nice--even though the version I saw was not the 3-D version. The color was very nice and it helped that it was filmed at an air force base--complete with real planes and less crappy stock footage. While kids will no doubt laugh at the way computers and robots are portrayed, for 1954, this is pretty cool stuff and quite believable based on the way they saw technology headed. It also helped that the film had a decent cast, though a few of the actors were a bit dopey (like the lady who began screaming like a banshee after the guy was killed by sound waves). Overall, well worth seeing.

By the way, but didn't Gog and Magog the robots look a little,...um...phallic?!

A good healthy dose of Cold War paranoia is permeated throughout this film entitled Gog. Gog is one of two robots controlled by a giant computer in a space project the other being Magog. But someone has seized control of the giant computer which goes by the name of Nowac and the two robots are reeking havoc on our space program which was not yet under the control of NASA as NASA was not created until 1958 and this film came out in 1954.

Richard Egan is both scientist and security agent sent out to the desert where this project is to find out what's been going on as a series of accidents. Already there is another scientist Constance Dowling who is also a security agent, but there incognito. She can't find an explanation as to who or what might be a traitor.

It's both a who and a what. The who is our enemies, unnamed to be sure but we know it's the Russians who else has supersonic planes that have penetrated our air defenses. They've got control of Nowac and with it control of Gog and Magog so we have no traitor in the ranks of the scientists.

Seeing the kind of sophistication the Russians have put into the sabotage, no doubt everyone left the film saying we ought to beef up security and give the military what they need.

For a low budget B film, the special effects weren't bad. Gog and Magog look like more sophisticated Daleks, but Daleks were pretty scary on the Dr. Who series.

Egan, Dowling, Herbert Marshall who played the top scientist and the rest of the cast gave sincere performances. Gog is most definitely a film for the paranoid at heart.