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Forbidden Planet (DVD)

Walter Pidgeon (actor), Anne Francis (actor) and Fred M. Wilcox (director)

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Review

USA Today, 08/01/1997, p.3D, "Filmed in CinemaScope and color and given a lofty sci-fi budget for its day....[A] perennially popular outer space variation on Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST..."

Premiere, 12/01/2006, p.130, "[A]n irresistible blend of the sublime and the silly....[With] magnificent galazy scapes...[and[ colorful futuristic interiors..."

Ultimate DVD, 08/01/2007, p.83, 5 stars out of 5 -- "FORBIDDEN PLANET is a feast for the eyes....This definitive Science Fiction movie has really never looked better..."

Entertainment Weekly, 09/16/1994, pp.126-8, "...Sci-fi classic....[Nielsen does] a man's-gotta-do-what-a-man's-gotta-do..." -- Rating: A-

Title Note

Color by Eastmancolor. Shot in CinemaScope.

"Electronic tonalities" by Louis and Bebe Barron.

Joshua Meador, who worked on the special effects team, was loaned to MGM by Walt Disney Productions.

The story is loosely based on Shakespeare's classic play "The Tempest."

Rated BBFC U by the British Board of Film Censors.

Distributor Note

Forbidden Planet: 50th Anniversary Edition (Dbl DVD)

A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair offers evidence of an advanced civilization. But among Altair-4's many wonders, 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 plays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis)...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.

Source: Warner Home Video

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Disc - 2
Widescreen - 2.40
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Mono 1.0 - French
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Additional Footage - Deleted Scenes, Lost Footage
Featurettes - 1. "Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us"
2. "Amazing!: Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet"
3. "Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon"
Trailers - Theatrical Trailers

Product Notes

Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST is transformed in this landmark science-fiction film. Spacemen travel to a planet ruled by Dr. Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), who has built a kingdom with his daughter and obedient robot Robby. The good doctor is plagued by his mad quest for knowledge through his "brain booster" machine, and by Freudian "monsters from the id" as his daughter discovers other men and learns to kiss.

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