Forbidden Planet

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G,1hr 38min

Genres:

Sci-Fi,Drama

Released:

March 15, 1956

Distributor:

MGM

Starring:

Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen ... More

Synopsis: MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. In the 23rd century, Cmdr. J.J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) guides United Planets cruiser C-57-D on a rescue mission to faraway planet Altair-4. Twenty years earlier, Earth ship Bellerophon disappeared while en route to Altair-4. Only the ship's philologist, Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), survived; in the intervening decades, Morbius has created an ... Full Synopsis

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	Bruce Eder, AMG Review At the time Forbidden Planet came along, science fiction hadn't existed for all that long as a movie genre, having really only established itself after World War II as distinct from horror films and movie serials. And there had been some serious science fiction films made up to that time -- most notably, Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). But science fiction was still considered primarily ... Read Review

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	Walter Pidgeon Dr. Edward Morbius Anne Francis Alta Morbius Leslie Nielsen Commander John J. Adams Warren Stevens Lt. "Doc" Ostrow

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