Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet (1956, USA) is a Science Fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox

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Main Details

• Released in 1956
• Color
• Running time: 98 minutes
• Production Co: MGM
• Distribution Co: MGM
• Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
• Produced by Nicholas Nayfack
• Written by Cyril Hume, Irving Block, Allen Adler, William Shakespeare (uncredited)
• Starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Robby The Robot
• Cinematography George J. Folsey
• Edited by Ferris Webster

Plot Summary

• A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.

Taglines

• IT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD! (original print ad - all caps)
• Earthmen on a fabulous, peril-journey into outer space!
• M-G-M Takes You On An Amazing Adventure Into Outer Space...
• The year is 2200 A.D. and you are aboard Space Cruiser C-57-D traveling faster than the speed of light toward a speck in the firmament - Altair4, the "Forbidden Planet". Your objective is to seek survivors of a previous disastrous interplanetary flight. Disregarding radar warnings, you land on Altair-4 armed with atomic weapons - and prepared for any eventuality. Your first sight of the new world is awesome...green skies...two moons...and endless eerie desert. Out of it appears an electronic monster - to welcome you. You go to the fantastic habitation of a secretive, hostile scientist - creator of the robot. You meet his daughter, a fascinating beauty who has never met an earthman before. You are invited to see the strange chasms of a lost super-race which attained the zenith of civilization 2,000,000 years ago. You are told of a strange force, invisible, unconquerable, that has the evil power to destroy the planet and all life on it. And then this terrifying menace manifests itself, sabotaging the space ship, resisting even disintegrator weapons, melting steel barricades, hurling humans to destruction. Your interstellar adventure comes to its climax - and it is an experience of such visual and emotional excitement as you have never before known within the walls of a motion picture theatre. Imagine it, in the wonder of Color and CinemaScope!
• One Of The Greatest Sci-Fi Masterpieces Of All Time!
• Nothing Like It Ever!
• In the year 2200, a space cruiser reaches the remote planet Altair...and a fabulous forbidden world opens up to the earthmen! An electronic monster! A lost super-race! A captive blonde goddess!
• Amazing!