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Forbidden Planet

(50th Anniversary Edition) (2-DVD)

Starring: Walter Pidgeon; Anne Francis & Leslie Nielsen
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Also released as:
Forbidden Planet 50th Anniversary Edition (Ultimate Collector's Edition) (2-DVD) for $44.95


Format: DVD

Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Average Customer Rating: Rating 4.5
Based on 316 ratings.

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DVD Features:

Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
Package Type: Keep Case
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

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:

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.

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.

Plot Keywords:

Classic | Essential Cinema | Family Film | Monsters | Recommended | Robots / Cyborgs | Space Exploration

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

DVD Details:

  • Deleted scenes and lost footage
  • 2 follow-up vehicles starring Robby the Robot: feature film The Invisible Boy, The Thin Man TV series episode "Robot Client"
  • 3 documentaries: TCM original "Watch the Skies!": "Science Fiction, the 1950s" and "Us
  • the all-new Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet"
  • Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
  • Excerpts from The MGM Parade TV series
  • New digital transfer from restored picture and audio elements
  • Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Science-fiction movie trailer gallery
  • Languages: English & Français
  • Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
  • Label: Warner Home Video
  • Originally Released in: 1956
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Run Time: 45 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Region: Region 1 encoding; USA & Canada.
  • Release Date: November 14, 2006
  • OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 6,630
  • Item UPC: 012569691223
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx); Counts as 2 item(s) for International Shipping.

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Average Customer Rating: Rating 4.5
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