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Release Date:
15 March 1956 (USA)
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Tagline:
IT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD! (original print ad - all caps) more
Plot:
A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 nomination
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(39 articles)
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(From CinemaRetro. 20 November 2009, 8:31 PM, PST)
Fede Alvarez Animates The Robocalypse In Panic Attack
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Sorry "Star Wars"--the greatest Science Fiction film ever
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Walter Pidgeon | ... | Dr. Edward Morbius |
 | Anne Francis | ... | Altaira 'Alta' Morbius |
 | Leslie Nielsen | ... | Commander J. J. Adams |
| Warren Stevens | ... | Lt. 'Doc' Ostrow M.D. |
| Jack Kelly | ... | Lt. Jerry Farman |
 | Richard Anderson | ... | Chief Quinn |
| Earl Holliman | ... | Cook |
| Robby the Robot | ... | Himself |
| George Wallace | ... | Bosun |
 | Robert Dix | ... | Crewman Grey (as Bob Dix) |
| Jimmy Thompson | ... | Crewman Youngerford |
| James Drury | ... | Crewman Strong |
| Harry Harvey Jr. | ... | Crewman Randall |
| Roger McGee | ... | Crewman Lindstrom |
| Peter Miller | ... | Crewman Moran |
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98 min
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Color (Eastmancolor) (as Eastman Color)
Aspect Ratio:
2.55 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Iceland:L |
USA:Approved (certificate #17605) |
USA:G (re-rating) (1972) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Sweden:15 |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-12 |
UK:U |
Argentina:Atp |
West Germany:12
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The time aboard the C57D is stated as being 17:01 hours when the ship enters orbit around Altair IV. Gene Roddenberry, a fan of this movie, would later use 1701 as the naval construction contract number of the Starship Enterprise.
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Factual errors: The star Altair is shown as an orange-red star, eclipsed by one of its (spherical) planets. It is now known that Altair is white and is oblate, with its equatorial diameter 14% greater than its polar diameter, something that was not known when the movie was produced.
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Quotes:
Dr. Edward Morbius:
One cannot behold the face of the gorgon and live!
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Featured in "Ultimate Sci-Fi Top 10" (2004)
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Sure Star Wars (a movie I have seen at least fifty times) beats all the others in special effects, but this film has every thing else!
It has horror(non-graphical), romance, robots, witty repartee, intelligence, (surprisingly good) special effects, and drama.
I saw this film a couple of years ago in a revival with a newly struck print, and I was amazed at how well it held up today. I thought the old 40's style electronics would look hokey, but they somehow looked futuristic and moderne.
Ann Francis in here (mostly) short skirts and bare feet with a girlish innocence that is hard to beat still gets a rise out of me.
The Krell monster appearing in the ray beams still scares the bejebees out of me.
Of course we all know that the "Great Bird of the Galaxy" probably modeled much of "Star Trek" from this movie.
No one has yet to beat Robby, the Robot, in terms of personality
(sorry, R2D2 and C3PO).
This movie, overall, is the standard that all other Science Fiction films will have to measure up to!
Honorable mention for the haunting electronic score which kept us all on pins and needles.