I recently saw a restored 3-D print of this film at MoMA and have to say I enjoyed it. It seems so much of it's time, when the Cold War was getting warmed up and interest in space exploration was taking hold of our collective imaginations. I loved the costumes, and of course the lead female scientist running around in heels, and that they thought radiation could only travel in a straight line and that just a turn of the corner would keep you safe. I imagine that I would not have enjoyed this film as much had I seen it in its original release in 1954, but given the chance to see it now in the 21st century I found it great fun!

This is a comment on "junk-monkey" 21 January 2008. At about 1:08 to 1:09 in the movie, the German scientist is telling the hero to get a flame thrower. The reviewer said the accent was too thick and he could not understand the next dialog. I believe the German scientist says -- Can you use a flame thrower? Then the key line is "We've got 2 in the storage room down the hall."I could not find a subtitle download for this movie. Allsubs.org seems to have gone into Neverneverland. My comment: Lots of the lab workers are doctors -- they would address each other as Jim or Susan, not Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones all the time. Yes, the first time they are introduced, and when outsiders are present, but not among themselves.

I Remember seeing the right eye print of Gog on t.c.m. years ago.It was rather slow moving.Today I finally got to see the film in it's restored 3D version on Blu-ray.It was ratio at 1.66:1 ratio.The story is very intellectual,so, there is strong character development and barley any actions.It came from out space had minimum of character development with action and was a faster pace.It doesn't make it bad film. If your like me and get cluster phobia ,the total focus in the film ,in the compound through out the whole picture might bring it out Wearing 3D glass it amplifies it more .Because your being drawn into that well insulated compound.The out door sequences you get the relief.The whole story takes place As Constance Dowling is showing Richard Egan the staff and the compound,when all this mysterious bad things are going on,since D.r.Hubertus and his assistant Helen was mysteriously murdered.There are two Robots in this compound Gog and Magog.They start causing problems. Why are they doing it ? Why are things going out of control?One one scene you see these two soldiers looking at a special telescope that looks like a natural vision cameras in disguise .The actress,Valeri Vernon ,who plays one of the wife of the doctors,weather hair platinum blond gray.Where they trying to make her look older .They did not put enough old make up to look real old,or was it's just a effect? This is a cold war film .We all know who the enemy was .It was implied, the communist spies from Russia .There is a 3D made interviews on the disc of the Restoration of this film ,where the head of the 3D archive discusses it.A 2003 video tape of Herbert L. Stock ,who had near flat eye problems .I'm wondering if he was aware of the cure for this problem that eye doctor offer ,even that time.There is also an interview with the cinema photographer Lothrop B. Worth, at the old folk home where he discuses his involvement in the development of Natural Vision 3D.Worth buy or Renting. 03/05/16

Gog (1954) *** (out of 4) A security expert (Richard Egan) is at a secret laboratory where they are experimenting with possible space travel. They're also working on a couple robots and soon various doctors end up dead and it's clear there's a murderer running loose. GOG is a pretty talky little picture yet it does a very good job at holding ones attention from start to finish. When the movie started I wasn't really sure where it was going to go but director Herbert L. Strock handles the material quite well and makes the film worth viewing. As with many science fiction films from this era, there's some laughable moments today and especially when we now know about time travel and various other things that they were just guessing at when this movie was made. Some of their thoughts on these subjects are pretty funny today but this doesn't take away from the movie. I was really surprised to see how little action there really is. Usually when you have a movie like this full of dialogue it gets bogged down and becomes very boring but that doesn't happen here. I think the idea behind the story was interesting enough and the actors good enough to where they could keep the viewers attention. Egan does a great job in the leading role and his serious performance certainly helps you feel as if these events are really going on. Constance Dowling is good as the woman with a crush on him and we get strong support from Herbert Marshall and John Wengraf. The two robots really don't look scary at all and today they'll probably be more campy than anything else. Still, GOG has enough going for it to make it worth viewing for fans of the genre and this era of science fiction.