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| Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 |
The 1950's science-fiction classic FORBIDDEN PLANET not only influenced the use of beaming people for STAR TREK, also including a crew of human explorers slowly learning that their investigative situation is dire, even deadly, but Disney's THE BLACK HOLE is basically a remake...
Both involving an old scientist and a giant sidekick robot... who remained on the titular planet, once inhabited by brilliant aliens: while his entire crew vanished on the way home, providing the search/mission for Leslie Nielson's spaceship to explore the same place that he's warned not to land on...
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| Anne Francis and Jack Kelly in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
He's lucky enough to meet the scientist's gorgeous, male-fantasy, scantily-clad daughter Anne Francis (who actually had more chemistry with his womanizing third-in-command), and eventually learns what's causing random crew-members to die, involving something caused by that plot-important scientist...
Who's actually a somewhat miscast Walter Pidgeon, not neurotic or dynamic enough to fit the mad scientist motif (or even someone on the verge): instead spouting loads of expository dialogue liken to a Shakespearian stage-play (while THE TEMPEST is an actual inspiration)...
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Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen in FORBIDDEN PLANET
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Making the best moments of FORBIDDEN PLANET the eye-popping visuals, from the planets matte-painted lunar surface to the steely industrialized interiors that's like a formidable character in itself...
There just needed more overall suspense and danger (beside the inevitable monster-battle) that could have been in any lesser science-fiction adventure... but that delivers a wonderfully-presented, groundbreaking fable combining the visual presentation of cinema and the mind-devouring intrigue of space/fantasy pulp literature.
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| Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Leslie Nielsen in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis in Forbidden Planet with Walter Pidgeon |
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| Anne Francis in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Robby the Robot in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis and Robby the Robot in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Robby the Robot from FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Matte Paintings from FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Matte Paintings from FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Matte Paintings from FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Leslie Nielsen in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Leslie Nielsen and Richard Anderson in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Robert Dix in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis and Robby the Robot in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Earl Holliman in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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Anne Francis in FORBIDDEN PLANET with Walter Pidgeon
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| Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens & Jack Kelly in Forbidden Planet with Walter Pidgeon |
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| Anne Francis in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Anne Francis and Jack Kelly in FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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| Leslie Nielsen and Warren Stevens in Forbidden Planet with Walter Pidgeon |
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| Anne Francis in Forbidden Planet with Walter Pidgeon |
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| Opening Credits from Forbidden Planet |
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| Opening Credits from Forbidden Planet |
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| Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET |
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