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Forbidden Planet

starring: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly
directed by: Fred M. Wilcox

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569505926
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 18, 2000
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 4991
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 1956



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Description:
A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair provides astonishing evidence of a populace a million years more advanced than Earthlings. There are many wonders on Altair-4, but none is greater or more deadly than the human mind. Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen portrays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), the remarkable Robby...and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.

Amazon.com essential video:
This 1956 pop adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of the best, most influential science fiction movies ever made. Its space explorers are the models for the crew of Star Trek's Enterprise, and the film's robot is clearly the prototype for Robby in Lost in Space. Walter Pidgeon is the Prospero figure, presiding over a paradisiacal world with his lovely young daughter and their servile droid. When the crew of a spaceship lands on the planet, they become aware of a sinister invisible force that threatens to destroy them. Great special effects and a bizarre electronic score help make this movie as fresh, imaginative, and fun as it was when first released.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet (Two-Disc Special Edition)Great movie, great transfer. Still better than most science ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Revisit of Forbidden Planet
I admit, I've been spoiled by Star Trek and Next Generation. I just had to
take another look at my ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Robby Robot Rules
This movie is one hour and 38 minutes long and was released on March 15, 1956. Since this movie is based ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Time and Space
I remember this movie as a young boy sitting up one night and watching it on the family's B&W TV. What impressed ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - One of the Most Influential Films Ever Made
In 1956 MGM released Fred Wilcox's Forbidden Planet. Originally conceived as a B-movie the film has taken on a personality ... Read More

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