War of the Robots (La guerra dei robot)

Alfonso Brescia both wrote and directed War of the Robots (Italian: La guerra dei robot), a 1978 science fiction picture from Italy with a strong streak of action and adventure. Filmed in Italian, it lasts roughly 99 minutes and reached foreign audiences under the name Reactor. It belongs to the wave of low-budget Italian space operas that followed the success of the 1977 film Star Wars.

The story begins when an alien civilization on the brink of extinction abducts two famous genetic scientists from Earth in the hope of saving its race. A troop of soldiers sets out to fight the humanoid robots holding the captives and bring the scientists back. The cast includes Antonio Sabàto, Yanti Somer, Malisa Longo, Patrizia Gori and Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, along with Licinia Lentini as Lilian Lacy, Venantino Venantini, Ines Pellegrini as Sonia, Massimo Righi, Jacques Herlin, Roger Browne and Carolyn De Fonseca.

Brescia made the film as the third of four low-budget space operas he directed within two years. It comes after Anno zero - Guerra nello spazio and La Bataille des étoiles and is followed by Sette uomini d'oro nello spazio. Brescia worked on it under the pseudonym Al Bradley.