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24.192.68.129 Since: Dec, 1969
2011-08-04 20:03:09

I think that was Night Flyers! Not the Stephen King movie Nightflyer, but a movie based on the short story. The girl was Mary Catherine Stuart.

Edited by 24.192.68.129
24.192.68.129 Since: Dec, 1969
2011-08-04 20:07:36

Yeah...that scene was where the ship's computer used the robot to try and kill everyone. IMDB entry. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093626/ You can see I got her name backwards.

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2011-08-05 00:56:39

Thanks! I was not expecting a quick answer to this (I've asked lots of people, and made a thread on another forum, all to no avail).

24.192.68.129 Since: Dec, 1969
2011-08-07 13:45:48

I know a guy that has an avi of that movie, it was copied from a VHS tape.

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2011-08-09 12:19:03

There's a million people selling used tapes of this movie on Amazon Marketplace, so no thanks.

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2011-11-14 03:18:33

I finally got around to watching Nightflyers and that's not it. Good movie, though.

DrDedman Since: Jan, 2001
2011-11-14 17:02:09

How about Saturn 3?

A staple of early 80s pay-TV. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079285/

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2011-11-14 21:18:18

Robot...corridors...Eighties...this might be it. I'll see if I can find a copy.

I'm a little bit doubtful. The robot on the cover looks biomechanical whereas the one in my memory looks more "clean" (e.g. Maximilian, original Transformer, original Cylon). But it was so long ago that I can't be sure.

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FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2013-02-25 02:30:19

It's not Saturn 3. Any other ideas?

KEVP Since: Aug, 2009
2013-02-25 06:30:32

Were the actors Americans?

You saw this on television? What country were you in? Do you remember what network?

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2013-02-25 15:29:43

I was very young. I don't remember any details beyond what I've already said. I saw it in the US.

Azzizzi Since: Oct, 2009
2013-02-26 04:01:28

Was there a robot named Maximillian? If so, that might be "The Black Hole" from 1979.

KEVP Since: Aug, 2009
2013-02-26 07:14:12

A robot attacking characters in a corridor sounds is something that happens A LOT on Doctor Who.

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2013-03-01 21:02:11

It's been a while since I saw The Black Hole but I'm pretty sure there's no scene of a human lying on the floor after being crippled by an attack from Maximilian. I think think this movie did have a similar visual style though.

I've seen almost every color Doctor Who story and I'm pretty sure the scene I remember wasn't from that.

Scissortank Since: Jun, 2018
2019-10-01 04:29:49

I started this thread years ago, and I think I have the solution now (in case anyone still cares).

I just finished watching The Black Hole, and Azzizzi was probably right. There's a scene where an old man takes cover from killer robots beneath a big computer console, then tells a young man to carry out the rescue mission without him because his leg is broken. There's another scene where a man saves a woman from a different killer robot that looks like a hovering Transformer.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think my memory combined those two scenes into the distorted mental picture I described at the top of the thread.

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