The skillfully-made film was both praised and vilified at the time of its release, but has since been rated as one of the best films of its decade.But the original print of the film has been lost forever, although there have been repeated rumors of its existence.To reconstruct the horrible accident, Kurtz re-enacts what happened when Lime was hit by a truck.He describes how he and a friend carried Lime""s body o a statue in the middle of the square where he died:We came out of this place like this and were walking his way...A Giant Robot!""From Out Of Space...A Warning And An Ultimatum!""Strange Power From Another Planet Menaces The Earth!""The World Faced With Destruction By Strange "Men" and Demonic Machines From A Distant Planet!"This cautionary science fiction parable began with the landing of a spacecraft on DC""s Ellipse in the early 1950s.