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Name: Forbidden Planet
Released: 1956-3-15
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly

Forbidden Planet

G
1h 38m
1956

92%

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In this classic and much-emulated work of science fiction, a rescue mission to a distant planet discovers the two survivors of a space ship that crashed 20 years before on the Forbidden Planet. One of the stranded humans has deciphered the secrets of the planet's long-extinct inhabitants--and the technology that gave them the power to instantly destroy their civilization. Now, he refuses to share his knowledge ...and one-by-one the rescuers begin to die. Based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

Director:

Fred M. Wilcox

Producer:

Nicholas Nayfack

Writer:

Cyril Hume

Cast:

Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson, Earl Holliman, George D. Wallace, Robert Dix, Jimmy Thompson, James Drury, Harry Harvey Jr., Roger McGee, Peter Miller, Morgan Jones

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

92%

Critics Consensus: Shakespeare gets the deluxe space treatment in Forbidden Planet, an adaptation of The Tempest with impressive sets and seamless special effects.

Reviews

Miami Herald

Bob Freund

The film abounds in sound and color. Electronic tonalities and odd spectrum graduations make it a treat for eye and ear. The actors come off better than you'd think, too.

Elevating this as a “landmark film” when Robert Wise’s “The Day the Earth Stood Still” was smarter, more suspenseful, better-acted and more in tune with its times seems laughable.

Forbidden Planet is the greatest sci-fi film of its time and would pave the way for bigger and better sci-fi blockbusters to come.

March 10, 2023

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Mark Leeper's Reviews

Mark R. Leeper

One of the great and iconic science fiction films of all time.

September 11, 2022

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