Gog (film)
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| Directed by | Herbert L. Strock |
| Produced by | Ivan Tors |
| Written by | Tom Taggart (screenplay) Ivan Tors (story) Richard G. Taylor (dialogue) |
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Richard Egan Constance Dowling Herbert Marshall |
| Music by | Harry Sukman |
| Cinematography | Lothrop B. Worth |
| Edited by | Herbert L. Strock |
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Ivan Tors Productions
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $250,000 (estimated) |
Gog is a 1954 independently made American science fiction film in Eastmancolor, produced by Ivan Tors, directed by Herbert L. Strock, that stars Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, and Herbert Marshall. Gog was produced by Ivan Tors Productions and was filmed in Natural Vision 3D, Color Corporation of America color, and widescreen. The film was distributed by United Artists Corp.
Gog is the third and final feature film in Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" (OSI) trilogy, following The Magnetic Monster (1953) and Riders to the Stars (1954).
Unaccountable, deadly malfunctions begin occurring at a top-secret government facility located under the New Mexico desert, where a space station is being constructed. Dr. David Sheppard, from the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) in Washington, D.C., is called in to investigate the mysterious deaths. Working with Joanna Merritt, another OSI agent already at the facility, Sheppard determines that the deaths among the laboratory's 150 top scientists are due to deliberate sabotage of the facility's Nuclear Operative Variable Automatic Computer (NOVAC) that controls all the equipment in the underground facility.
It is far more difficult, however, to determine how the sabotage is being done. The unseen enemy strikes again and again, snuffing out the lives of five scientists and two human test subjects in quick succession, as well as Major Howard, the complex's Chief of Security. In addition, both Madame Elzevir (solar engineering scientist) and Dr. Peter Burden (chief atomic engineer) are attacked, but manage to survive, although both are injured.
Eventually, Sheppard determines that a powerful radio transmitter and receiver were secretly built into NOVAC during its construction in Switzerland, without the knowledge or consent of its designer, Dr. Zeitman. An enemy robot plane, whose fiberglass body does not register on radar, has been flying overhead, beaming precisely focused, ultra-high-frequency radio signals into the complex to control NOVAC's every function. The computer, in turn, controls Gog and Magog, two huge mobile robots with multiple arms, powerful gripping tools, and other implements.
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