Target Earth 1954 Sci-Fi ★★★ (AI-CC)

Target Earth is a 1954 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Herman Cohen, directed by Sherman A. Rose, that stars Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey, and Whit Bissell.

Storyline: The city of Chicago is ordered to be completely evacuated as an army of robots, believed to be from the planet Venus attack it. Left behind are Nora King and Frank Brooks, strangers until their chance meeting in the deserted streets. They meet a celebrating couple at a café, Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson. The quartet escape the robot patrol and take refuge in a large hotel. There, they encounter a new danger, a psychopathic killer. Venus robots or not, the psychopath practices his profession.
Credits
Richard Denning as Frank Brooks
Kathleen Crowley as Nora King
Virginia Grey as Vicki Harris
Richard Reeves as Jim Wilson
Robert Roark as Davis
Whit Bissell as Tom, Chief research scientist
Arthur Space as Lt. General Wood
Steve Pendleton as Colonel
Mort Marshall as Charles Otis
House Peters Jr. as Technician
Steve Calvert as the Robot

Directed by Sherman A. Rose
Produced by Herman Cohen
Screenplay by James H. Nicholson, Wyott Ordung, William Raynor
Story by "Deadly City" by Paul W. Fairman
Cinematography Guy Roe
Edited by Sherman A. Rose
Music by Paul Dunlap