Invention For Destruction (1958)

Directed by Karel Zeman · Cinematography by Jiří Tarantík

83 min65 frames

AdventureScience Fiction

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.

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