Cyborg 2087 (1966)

Cyborg Garth A7 (a fine performance by Michael Rennie) goes back in time to 1966 in order to prevent scientist Professor Sigmund Marx (well played by Edward Franz) from presenting a breakthrough discovery to the world that will bring about mass thought control in the bleak future of 2087. Director Franklin Adreon relates the engrossing story at a steady pace, maintains a likeable earnest tone, and stages the exciting action scenes with skill and flair. Arthur C. Pierce's compact script neatly prefigures the Terminator series with its compelling premise concerning people from the future traveling to the past in an attempt to save mankind. The solid acting by the able cast keeps this movie humming: Karen Steele as the perky and helpful Dr. Sharon Mason, Wendell Corey as a crusty sheriff, Warren Stevens as the dashing Dr. Carl Zellar, Harry Carey Jr. as pesky reporter Jay C, Adam Roarke as the eager Deputy Dan, and Chubby Johnson as the rascally Uncle Pete. Paul Dunlap's robust score does the rousing trick. A fun little flick.

*Spoiler/plot- Cyborg 2087, 1966. In th distant future of 2087, two scientists develop a time traveling device with a cyborg. The cyborg is supposed to go back in time and prevent a scientist from perfecting his new 'telepathy'. In the future time, a dictatorship government uses this telepathy to control it's citizenry and abuse their rights.*Special Stars- Michael Rennie, Karen Steele, Wendell Cory, Warren, Stevens, Eduard Franz, Harry Carey Jr.*Theme- Justice in any time is important enough to preserve.*Trivia/location/goofs- One of the last film appearance of Michael Rennie. Supposedly the idea for many later sci-fi films: Terminator, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Time Cop, and etc.*Emotion- I wanted to like this film for it's premise. Even though it's a time travel and cyborg film, this one is very crudely done with little production values. It suffers from total unbelievability and bad screen elements. The necessary sci-fi 'suspension of believability' never occurs and screen things are unintentionally laughable. The plot is essentially a 'chase' film' between the future bad guys police robots chasing the good guy cyborg in 1966. This film had high hopes but is essentially a waste of good film plot ideas and your time. And you can't go back in a time machine to get it again...A waste of your time & attention.

I remember seeing this movie a long time ago late 70's, I liked it very much but then I like all kinds of Sci-Fi no matter how good or bad it is.But then I haven't seen it since then so am left with only memories of this and other B-movies as their isn't any way for me too find out where I can purchase these movies at any store in Toronto, as I don't like buy burned copies because the quality can be dreadful. So if anyone knows where I can purchase these B-movies from a store around the city it would be a great relief to me. As I have been getting my self up to date on IMDb about these B-movies and learning more about the movies I watched as a teen I thought that I could get someone in the KNOW to help me locate some of the titles of the movies I would like to see again. Like I said before I have some low budget compilations of Sci-Fi but am searching for more.

funny thing this movie.it repeats on the space channel a lot, along with another fine b scifi flick "project x", but the funny thing is, whenever it's on, i always fall asleep by the time they have that lame chase on the rooftop of the power plant. that's 3 times now this year i've missed the ending.whatever.how james cameron got away with ripping this thing off is beyond me. but then again, maybe a lot of people removed it from their resumes.