Forbidden Planet 50th Anniversary Edition (Ultimate Collector's Edition) (2-DVD) - Sci-Fi / Fantasy Classic Movies on DVD (2006) Starring Walter Pidgeon; Anne Francis & Leslie Nielsen; Directed by Fred Wilcox; Warner Home Video : OLDIES.com

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DVD Features:

Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
Digipak
Disc - 2
Aspect Ratio: 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

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Collectible - Toy

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..."

Description by OLDIES.com:

Collectible tin package includes the 50th Anniversary Two DVD Edition of Forbidden Planet, plus a Robby the Robot figure and collector cards. Includes remastered and restored version of the science fiction classic, plus ALMOST SIX HOURS of bonus features! Also includes 1957 MGM feature film, The Invisible Boy.

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.