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Robots On Film - Plot Summaries: 'K'

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King of the Rocket Men (1949) Click for IMDb info.

The adventures of Jeff King, the Rocket Man, as he tries to prevent the decimator from falling into the clutches of the evil Vulcan, the science academy traitor. The film features the same robots as were used in The Mysterious Dr. Satan and The Phantom Empire.

Kingukongu No Gyakushu/The Revenge of King Kong/King Kong's Counterattack/King Kong Escapes (1967) Click for IMDb info.

The evil Doctor Who (no, not that one), is using Mechni-Kong - a robot King Kong - to mine radioactive substances. When the robot develops a fault, the Doctor kidnaps the real Kong to take over the robot's role. Breaking out of the mine, Kong eventually defeats Mechni-Kong in a fight on the top of the Tokyo Tower.

Kiss Meets the Phantom/Attack of the Phantoms (1978) Click for IMDb info.

After he's sacked, a worker in an amusement park creates robot versions of the rock group Kiss, in order to instigate a riot and so destroy the park. (Planned as a promotional film for the Kiss members' solo albums.)

Kiss Me Quick!/Dr Breedlove/Dr Breedlove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love (1964) Click for IMDb info.

Sterilox, an alien, comes to Earth searching for female partners, as all the women on his planet are infertile. After falling in love with a vending machine, he eventually visits Dr. Breedlove, who creates an artificial woman which he takes back to his home planet with him. (A parody of Dr. Strangelove.)

Klaun Ferdinand a Raketa/Rocket to Nowhere/Clown Ferdinand and the Rocket (1962) Click for IMDb info.

Three children and a clown are rescued from a devastated city by a spaceship controlled by a robot.

Kronos/Kronos, Destroyer of the Universe (1957) Click for IMDb info.

Kronos is a 100 foot high robot which comes to Earth in search of energy, which it 'consumes'. After the (extremely dumb) military try to kill Kronos by dropping an H-bomb onto it (predictably, it just grows even bigger), a scientist manages to short-circuit the robot.