Forbidden Planet (HD DVD) - Sci-Fi / Fantasy HD DVDs (1956) Starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen & Warren Stevens; Directed by Fred M. Wilcox; Warner Home Video : OLDIES.com

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Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy

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Item Number:
WHV 79210HD

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DVD Features:

Elite Red HD Case
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 2.40

Audio:

Dolby Digital Surround Sound Plus 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Surround Sound Plus 1.0 - French, Latin Spanish
Subtitles - English SDH, English, French, Spanish - Optional
Closed Captioned - English - Optional

Additional Release Material:

Trailers - 1. Science-Fiction Movie Trailer Gallery
Featurettes - 1. Additional Scenes
2. "Lost Footage"
3. Excerpts from the MGM PARADE TV Series
4. "2 Follow Up Vehicles Starring Robby the Robot"
a. THE INVISIBLE BOY - Feature Film
b. THE THIN MAN TV Series Episode "Robot Client"
5. 3 Documentaries
a. "Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of FORBIDDEN PLANET"
b. "Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon"
c. "TCM Original 'Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s, and Us"

Entertainment Reviews:

Entertainment Weekly - 09/16/1994

"...Sci-fi classic....[Nielsen does] a man's-gotta-do-what-a-man's-gotta-do..." -- Rating: A-

USA Today - 08/01/1997

"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

"[A]n irresistible blend of the sublime and the silly....[With] magnificent galazy scapes...[and[ colorful futuristic interiors..."

Ultimate DVD - 08/01/2007

5 stars out of 5 -- "FORBIDDEN PLANET is a feast for the eyes....This definitive Science Fiction movie has really never looked better..."

Product Description:

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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Production Notes:

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.

Cast and Crew:

Starring		Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen & Warren Stevens
Directed by		Fred M. Wilcox
Produced by		Nicholas Nayfack
Edited by		George Folsey, Jr. & Ferris Webster
Screenwriting by		Cyril Hume
Composition by		Bebe Barron & Louis Barron
Featured Characters		Robby the Robot
Special Effects by		A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe, Irving Reis & Joshua Meador
Costume Designer by		Walter Plunkett
Director of Photography		George J. Folsey
Production Design by		Cedric Gibbons & Arthur Lonergan
Performer		Earl Holliman, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson, George D. Wallace, James Drury, Harry Harvey, Jr., Bob Dix & Jimmie Thompson
Source Writer		Irving Block & Allen Adler