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The Human Duplicators is a low-budget film released in 1965 by independent company Woolner Brothers Pictures Inc.
The plot involves a giant alien named Dr. Kolos (Richard Kiel) who is dispatched to Earth from a faraway galaxy on orders to create android doppelgängers by employing the scientific services of hypnotized cyberneticist Prof. Vaughn Dornheimer (George Macready).
For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode see here.
The Human Duplicators provides examples of the following tropes:[]
- An Arm and a Leg: Agent Martin wedges his duplicate's arm into a door to distract his pursuers. The same android returns, one arm still missing, at the end of the movie.
- Bittersweet Ending: The conspiracy is thwarted, which Kolos attributes to humans being "stronger"... and then Kolos, despite his growing feelings for humanity, reports back to his masters be destroyed, since he is an android himself, or as near as makes no difference. (Meanwhile, the "masters of the galaxy" are still out there, but there's reason to believe they have machines that will turn on them someday, so who knows where that's going.)
- The Chick: We got two of 'em: Lisa the blind chick and Hugh's secretary.
- Cloning Blues: They're androids, not clones, but they still get a bit of this.
- Hey, It's That Guy!: Jaws was really an alien!
- Not forgetting Hugh Beaumont.
- And George Nader also featured in the first season's Robot Monster.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
- Immune to Bullets: the androids
- Death by Falling Over: also androids
- The Mole: The androids' raison d'etre, for purposes of gathering sensitive information and/or supplies.
- Playing Against Type: Hugh Beaumont is pretty darn grouchy in this movie.
- Tomato in the Mirror: At the end, Kolos tells everyone he is an android.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The androids are vulnerable to a Tap on the Head.
- What Happened to the Mouse?? What happened to the guy who looks like the young Jack Palance?