2/5 Tobor is R-O-B-O-T spelled backwards
  by S. M. Przybylinski (Brookline MA)
One of the worst sci fi robots of all time, but he makes a great pal for "Gadg", short for Gadget, the knickname of the grandson of Tobor's inventor. Seems that he is just as handy as Grandpa, and uses that skill to get into and out of trouble in this flick.

Worth seeing if you like the genre, but not sure it's worth owning.

4/5 Good reminder of Saturday afternoons in the sixties
  by Lonewolf Astronomer (Trevor, Wisconsin USA)
How can you go wrong when you spell robot backwards, chuckle. Definitely one of the Sci-Fi classics of the 50's and 60's that I remember watching on Saturday afternoons on the good old B&W TV set.

4/5 A Nostalgic Reminder
  by W. Kirchmeyer (Chicago, IL United States)
I bought this title because I remembered watching it on Chicago's WGN Series "Family Classics". Although the "special effects" are very dated, the story is, surprisingly, as enjoyable as I recalled from my childhood viewings. I would recommend it for fans of 50's & 60's Sci-Fi, as long as you watch it with an appropriate amount of appreciation for the tongue in check & try not to be too jaded by everthing we now see in the movies. I would be a great vehicle for a big-budget, digital effects remake, of course updated to modern times - perhaps the first "robot" guided mission to another planet.

5/5 Tobor the Great
  by G.Wells (Northern Ohio)
Excellent 1950's B&W sci-fi. I haven't seen "TOBOR the GREAT" since I was a child. What a classic!

2/5 Definitely a kid's flick
  by Timothy P. Scanlon (Hyattsville, MDUSA)
Believe it or not, I saw this film when it was almost new. Yeah, that long ago. But I always remembered it as I thought the "robot spelled backward" thing was clever. So, after all these years, I needed to get it.

First, expect to see some familiar faces. Charles Drake played the sherrif in "It Came from Outer Space. He's the star of this one.

William Shallert was the bad guy in "Man from Planet X" and a diplomat of sorts in Star Trek's "The Trouble with Tribbles."

Henry Kulky went on to bigger roles (!) in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea after this gem.

And Lyle Talbot you may remember from some Ed Wood classics.

Taylor Holmes (Professor Nordstrom), probably NOT a familiar face, was among the least articulate of any actor I've ever heard. Anyway...

As to the robot costume, I never cease to be amazed as to how unimaginative we were back then. All robots were anthropoid. Later, in "2001: A Space Odyssey," the robot WAS the ship. THAT was creativity.
In short, I wish we'd have been more creative.

On the other hand, I'd love to have that costume for a party!

And there was a mixture of sci fi and the occult: Professor Nordstrom who'd created Tobor made him ESP sensitive. I could have done without that.

In any case, it was pretty far from realistic. In Nordstrom's house, he had a Tobor preview. The press and everyone there was to have security clearance to enter. Afterwards, Ralph Harrison (Drake) noticed that, golly gee, there were 13 chairs but only 12 had been invited.

Everyone had a security clearance, and no one noticed until they had all left that someone was there who shouldn't have been?

Then the bad guys decided to break into Nordstrom's house to get the secret of the robot. They just had to wait until it got dark. Then, when they were attempting entry, they made more noise than the 4th of July fireworks! Then Nordstrom, Drake and the others there--he had a staff member who kept on referring to "gadgetses" who had a kind of Sam Jaffe aura--treated catching them almost like it was a Halloween stunt.

And Tobor "him"self was more warm and cuddly than Lassie!

In any case, no, it wasn't a really well done script. I guess it may have seemed that way when, what, was I in a stroller?

Then every rocket scene was done with some stock V2 footage. V2? Couldn't they even have faked something better than that?

Well, like I said. It's a kid's flick. In that sense, it was a letdown after upwards of a half century.