Gort

The eight-foot metal robot accompanies Klaatu, a visitor to Earth from a distant planet, aboard a flying saucer.

He does not speak, but uses a laserlike weapon projected from beneath a visor to vaporize weapons and obstacles.

Klaatu describes him as one of an interstellar police force, holding irrevocable powers to "preserve the peace" by destroying any aggressor.

The character was based loosely on Gnut, of "Farewell to the Master", a 1940 short story by Harry Bates, used as the basis for Edmund H. North's screenplay, in which Gnut is an animated green statue apparently attendant upon Klaatu, but identified, in the terminus of the story, as the eponymous 'master'.

On screen Gort is a large "seamless" robot apparently constructed from a single piece of "flexible metal".

He was portrayed by 7'-7" (231 cm)-tall actor Lock Martin wearing a thick foam-rubber suit designed and built by Addison Hehr.

Two suits were created, fastened alternately from the front or back so that the robot could appear seamless on either side.

Another fiberglass statue of Gort was used for close-ups of him firing his beam weapon or when the scene did not call for him to move.

To maximize the height of the robot, the costume was made with lifts in the boots and designed so that the figure's helmet stands nearly a foot above Martin's head.

Prisms were employed so that Martin could see through the costume's visor, and air holes were provided under the robot's chin.

During most of the film, Gort remains motionless in front of the saucer, which rests on the National Mall in central Washington D. C., while scientists and military researchers examine him.

At one point Klaatu communicates with him using signals from a flashlight.

He also responds to spoken commands, including the famous line "Klaatu barada nikto", spoken by Patricia Neal's character toward the end of the film.

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