Westworld (film) "Westworld"," he said later. "I was pleased but intimidated by the audience reaction. ... The laughs are in the wrong places. There was extreme tension where I hadn't planned it. I felt the reaction, and maybe the picture, was out of control." He believed that the film had been misunderstood as warning of the dangers of technology: "Everyone remembers the scene in "Westworld" where Yul Brynner is a robot that runs amok. But there is a very specific scene where people discuss whether or not to shut down the resort. I think the movie was as much about that decision
Doctor Satan's Robot filmed between September 20 and October 29, 1940 under the working title "Doctor Satan", at a cost of $147,381. Locations included the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California. According to Raymond William Stedman in "Serials: Suspense and Drama By Installment" (1971), Republic was unconsciously "observing the transfer of the costumed crusader from prairie to pavement" in the writing of this serial. The western cowboy hero would soon be replaced in popular culture by superheroes and masked crimefighters. The "Mysterious Doctor Satan" serial introduces the updated "Republic robot." A more primitive design had appeared in "Undersea Kingdom". The new robot would