MST3k - The Human Duplicators

The Human Duplicators
aka: Eht Numah Srotacilpud!
Year released: 1965
Directed by: Hugo Grimaldi,
Starring: Ward Cleaver, Richard OmhmygodI'mhuge, Polly Holiday, some stiff, Dolores Faith and a couple of red hot nurses.

Richard Dawson Kiel, September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014

Plot: Ginormous cyborg alien Undiet Kolos comes to Earth to start a butt collection. He is thwarted in his plans by a flap of cardboard in a suit, cardboard's blowzy blond girlfriend and a World Champion Blind pianist and professional Mr. B Natural imitator named Lisa who has never eaten a sandwich in her life. After failing to make an army of evil Hummel figurines and going against his programming by falling in love with Lisa, Kolos leaves Earth and returns to his own planet where he plans to have himself destroyed for being such a sap. The end.

Richard Dawson Kiel, who played Kolos, just died the other day. Cause of death has not yet been confirmed or released. Afflicted with acromegaly, the 7 foot 2 inch tall Kiel went from nightclub bouncer to actor to born again Christian marketer. His first Big Screen appearance was in Phantom Planet, in which he played "Exposed Brain Football Playing Puppy Alien" apparently. Thanks to this film - which was every bit as genre changing as 2001: A Space Odyssey (in that it wasn't at all), Rich got cast in this cheesy installment in the clone wars saga, alongside his Phantom Planet costar Dolores Faith.

Check out Dolores. Wasn't she hot? A tiny little china doll of a girl. Her life was short and her career unremarkable. She was only 48 when she died in Miami, after divorcing her millionaire Texas coffee heir husband Bob Neal. The only other thing I could find out about her was that she had a sister named Gigi, spent time in an orphanage and was deaf for a couple of years as a young child. She plays the blind Lisa here in Duplicators and played the mute Zetha in Phantom Planet. I'm only slightly disappointed that she didn't get cast as a paraplegic in a film called Mars Needs Flushing Toilets, or maybe a clubfoot named Tansy in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical "Don't Look At My Butt."

Let's see, what else?
Man this film is boring. There's not much in the way of trivia to be found, except for the small fact that it was Hugh Beaumont's last film. Can you believe he had 139 screen roles in his life? And three of those ended up on MST3K - The Human Duplicators, The Mole People and Lost Continent, aka "Rock Climbing."

George Nader, who played (rather woodenly) the Male Lead aka the super secret agent who blows the sinister case wide open, was actually a decent human being. He...ya know what? I'm just going to let you read about him for yourself.

Wow.
Kinda makes me wonder if that whole "Tom and Crow come out of the robot closet" closing sketch was a nod to Nader's sacrifice?

Servo: “Joel, Crow and I are robots and we want the world to know!”

Joel: "Well I knew that. It's more than a little obvious, okay?.”