jeff morrow be leslie gaskell and barbara laurence be vera hunter and and john emory be hubbel eliot . along with some ancillary air force personnel and a comic geek and they be in charge of a super secret underground laboratory on the west coast . morrow be thrill when he discover a meteor pass through the atmosphere but nonplus when the meteor decide to take a dip in the pacific ocean and emerge a a fantastic machine on the mexican coast . nobody know what this colossal and blocky structure be . obviously it some kind of carpenter artifact because it all make up of right angle with a kind of bald sphere half visible on top . it turn out that the machine and dubbed kronos and be from some far away planet and have be send here to rob the earth of energy . you see and here on earth and we have learn how to convert matter into energy and but on kronos planet they have figure out the other half of the equation how to convert energy into matter . and now theyre run out of energy on the other planet . be you take note on this . good . maybe you will be able to fill me in on some of the scientific question raise by kronos mission . for instance and if kronos builder can convert energy into matter and vice versa and why do not they just convert a little of their own spare matter into energy instead of send elaborate machine to earth to extinguish la light . but it doubtful the writer could explain it either . reverse the polarity of two antenna be describe a an anthropic conversion and which mean a towards human change and which doesn not make sense . but it doesn not seem that any of the science make sense for that matter . the diagram that morrow draw on the board have the current go in the wrong direction and from positive to negative . there a problem with kronos locomotion too . it march along the coast and threatening populate area ( read southern california ) and but it have no joint in it two or three leg . these stump just thump slowly up and down and squash some people . the film doesn not make much of these squashed people . theyre show a mexican peasant and so maybe they do not count for too much . the usaf also drop a hydrogen bomb on kronos while it in mexico and mind you . nobody raise an eyebrow . not much acting be call for and not much be give . jeff morrow have a distinct and resonant voice and great for radio or for tv voice over . his face be less expressive . he have only one expression and no matter what the situation be a tight smile and a if he have his picture take at the universal studio tour . barbara laurence have a fine and golden quality when she make street with no name a few year earlier . she be a slender seventeen year old a richard widmark wife . here and her grooming and demeanor reduce her to the level of b movie actress and though she still beautiful . it always good to see morris ankrum in one of these movie . he make so many and i get them mix up . on the whole and the film come across a flat and i be afraid . ( there be some nice shot of a b 47 in flight and though . ) the set reveal a low budget enterprise . that not necessarily bad in itself and but there nothing to make up for the barren setting . little tension in the script and no directorial display and and little effort put into the performance . you might get a kick out of it a relaxed high because this be distinctly unchallenging . it just that there be so many good film of the genre out there .