The Mechanical Man (AKA L'Uomo Meccanico (1921)) was one Italy's few forays into the realm of science fiction until all those weird Mario Bava things started to crop up in the 1960s. 

If you haven't heard of The Mechanical Man, this isn't surprising because for decades it was thought to be lost until a Brazilian print turned up-- forty percent of one anyway.  Makes the plot a bit hard to follow, but you still get to see a robot with a surprisingly large nose smash a lot of stuff up.

And that's what counts, isn't it?

Here we see the title character doing a passable T1000 impression and having a knees up with the local gentry.

Tales of Future Past | Ephemeral Isle | Freelance Writing | Radio Plays | Shop