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R.O.T.O.R. is a 1989 science fiction/action film starring Richard Gesswein as Coldyron, Jayne Smith as Dr. Steele and Margaret Trigg as Sonya Garrin. The film has come to be regarded by some as a B-movie "cult classic".
The film's conceptual roots can be clearly traced to its predecessors, The Terminator and RoboCop, which director Cullen Blaine, writer Budd Lewis, and lead actor Richard Gesswein adapted into this low-budget story about a leading scientist in the field of police robotics named Captain/Doctor J. Barrett C. Coldyron (played by the virile Gesswein and voiced over heroically by Loren Bivens), whose corrupt boss, Division Commander Earl Buglar (Michael Hunter), orders an experimental police-robot prototype to be completed within sixty days at the behest of the shady senator Donald D. Douglas, who intends to take public credit for the project and use it to catapult himself into the White House. Coldyron warns Buglar that the prototype is several years away from completion but is forced to resign and is replaced by his incompetent assistants, Dr. Houghtaling (Clark Moore) and Willard the Comedy Relief Robot. In Coldyron's absence, the prototype is inadvertently activated by Shoeboogie the Native American janitor and put on duty, where it proceeds to execute a motorist (James Cole) for speeding and terrorize his young fiancé, Sonya (Margaret Trigg), who the robot implicated as an accomplice in her boyfriend's violation. Upon learning his creation has escaped, Cpt. Coldyron enlists the help of his beautiful colleague from Houston, Dr. Corrine Steele (Jayne Smith), notable for her muscular physique and the white, skunk-like stripe in her hair, who designed the unit's combat chassis. Together, Steele and Coldyron track down the rampaging robot and attempt to stop it from killing again before it's too late.
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