Regular Price $19.98

Starring: Walter Pidgeon,  Anne Francis,  Leslie Nielsen,  Warren Stevens,  Jack Kelly, 
Directed By: Fred M. Wilcox, 
Rated: G (General Audience)
Release Date: 1956-03-15
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: Anamorphic,  Closed-captioned,  Color,  DVD-Video,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about Forbidden Planet

Description
A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair provides astonishing evidence of a populace a million years more advanced than Earthlings. There are many wonders on Altair-4, but none is greater or more deadly than the human mind. Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen portrays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), the remarkable Robby...and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.

Amazon.com essential video
This 1956 pop adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of the best, most influential science fiction movies ever made. Its space explorers are the models for the crew of Star Trek's Enterprise, and the film's robot is clearly the prototype for Robby in Lost in Space. Walter Pidgeon is the Prospero figure, presiding over a paradisiacal world with his lovely young daughter and their servile droid. When the crew of a spaceship lands on the planet, they become aware of a sinister invisible force that threatens to destroy them. Great special effects and a bizarre electronic score help make this movie as fresh, imaginative, and fun as it was when first released.

Customer Reviews for Forbidden Planet

HD?
I have seen this movie before, but I couldn't watch this one. It was in HD DVD.
Didn't realized it, now I have to return it because you can't even buy an HD DVD player anymore.
I feel so dumb.Forbidden Planet

More to See
Excellent! I have watched this movie many times and had the VHS tape, so I was amazed at how much of the actual movie I hadn't seen. Old versions cut off the sides for 4:3 TV formatting. If you have a wide screen TV, you definitely need to get this and watch the whole movie.
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Early Sci-Fi with Class
For MGM this was a major "A" when it was released -- something they wouldn't do again until the late 1960's with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. This was an obvious influence on shows like Star Trek and Lost in Space. Leslie Nielson in his leading man days, the ever beautiful Anne Francis, Walter Pigeon, Jack Kelly (pre-Maverick), a very young Earl Holliman (Police Woman), Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man and not to be confused with Richard DEAN Anderson of McGyver fame). Then again, who can forget Robbie the Robot, the magnificent Krell machines and a plot based on The Bard's "The Tempest".Forbidden Planet

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If you ever see forbibdden planet in hd or blur ray get it , it's great.Forbidden Planet

Question about packaging
I love this movie, and the copy I ordered just arrived from Amazon. The case was opened, however. It wasn't wrapped in the hard-to-open plastic sheeting, and there wasn't any security tape on the case. In other words, it just opened right up.
I'm concerned that this might be a used copy and that I might be missing some printed material. The only items in the case besides the two discs were the plain white piece of carboard with the security sticker, and an ad for TCM movies.
Can any of you who purchased this tell me if I'm missing anything, such as a scene selection card or booklet or anything?
Thanks!Forbidden Planet

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