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Forbidden Planet (1956)
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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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(41 articles)
"For Whom The Bell Tolls" And "Forbidden Planet" Saturday At Loews Jersey City
(From CinemaRetro. 20 November 2009, 8:31 PM, PST)
Fede Alvarez Animates The Robocalypse In Panic Attack
(From SciFiCool.com. 10 November 2009, 4:34 PM, PST)
(From CinemaRetro. 20 November 2009, 8:31 PM, PST)
Fede Alvarez Animates The Robocalypse In Panic Attack
(From SciFiCool.com. 10 November 2009, 4:34 PM, PST)
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The Best SF Film Of The 1950s
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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)
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2.55 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Sound System)
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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 scene in which the image of Altaira appears in the Krell's "plastic educator" device was achieved with several special effects, including superimposed film footage of the charge from an electrical generator, hand-drawn animation, and a traveling matte cut from film footage of Anne Francis.
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Revealing mistakes: As the tiger passes Altaira on the patio, first a portion of the tiger's face, and then a portion of the tiger's hind leg vanish in the split-screen effect.
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Referenced in The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
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FORBIDDEN PLANET is the best SF film from the golden age of SF cinema and what makes it a great film is its sense of wonder . As soon as the spaceship lands the audience - via the ships human crew - travels through an intelligent and sometimes terrifying adventure . We meet the unforgetable Robbie , the mysterious Dr Morbuis , his beautiful and innocent daughter Altair and we learn about the former inhabitants of the planet - The Krell who died out overnight . Or did they ?
You can nitpick and say the planet is obviously filmed in a movie studio with painted backdrops but that adds to a sense of menace of claustraphobia I feel and Bebe and Louis Barron`s electronic music adds even more atmosphere
I`m shocked this film isn`t in the top 250 IMDB films .