FORBIDDEN PLANET … 1956

 

FORBIDDEN PLANET  - 1956

Director:  Fred M. Wilcox
Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen

Storyline:
When Adams and his crew are sent to investigate the silence from a planet inhabited by scientists, he finds all but two have died. Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira have somehow survived a hideous monster which roams the planet. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, and has no intention of sharing it (or his daughter!) with anyone.

TAGLINES:
IT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD! (original print ad - all caps)
Earthmen on a fabulous, peril-journey into outer space!
Amazing!

Release Date: 15 March 1956 (USA)

Technical Specs
Runtime: 98 min
Sound Mix: Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Sound System)
Colour: Colour (Eastmancolor) (as Eastman Color)
Aspect Ratio: 2.55 : 1

Academy Awards, USA
1957 Nominated Oscar Best Effects, Special Effects
A. Arnold Gillespie , Irving G. Ries, Wesley C. Miller

TRIVIA:
This movie was filmed on the same sound-stage on which the movie The Wizard of Oz had been filmed seventeen years earlier; the set of Altaira's garden is a reuse of the Munchkin Village set from The Wizard of Oz.

QUOTE:
Commander John J. Adams: Alta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.