Forbidden Planet

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

Forbidden Planet

G
1h 38m
1956

96%

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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®

96%

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

Reviews

Mark Leeper's Reviews

Mark R. Leeper

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

"Aladdin's lamp in a physics laboratory!"

Episode 37: Edge of Tomorrow / Forbidden Planet / High Life

The final revelations are grand, yet they take far too long to arrive.

The film takes its time to expose, or discover, the real heart of the matter, to fully present its cards, something that would become a role model in future films of the genre. [Full Review in Spanish]

April 15, 2020

FULL REVIEW