"Yes. This was a real movie......The evil alien Ro-Man Extension XJ-2 (called 'Ro-Man' by the humans) has destroyed all human life on Earth, except for eight humans, using the 'Calcinator Death Ray'. The survivors include an elderly scientist, his wife, two daughters and son, his young assistant and two pilots taking a spacecraft to an orbiting space platform. All eight have developed an immunity to the death ray since receiving an experimental antibiotic serum developed by the scientist..."

From http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31604627- ...
newtboysays...

My guess would be for the same reason it had an old spot light housing with a tv antenna for a head...it's what they had lying around to work with.
The entire budget for this movie was $50k, most of which went to 3D black and white film. With that budget, you use what you can find.
Amazingly, this made a million at the box office, quite a bit in '53.

dagsaid:

Quote hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

But why does the robot have a gorilla body? This needs to be answered.

noimssays...

Fortunately the monster was only half-crazed. The other half was jolly reasonable, and was convinced to talk through its anger issues. It's now a rather good shoe salesman and father of two (previously three).

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