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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569691223
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 1924
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 1956
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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.Running Time: 98 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 012569691223 Manufacturer No: 66912
Amazon.com:
This 1956 pop adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of the best, most influential science fiction movies ever made. Its space explorers are the models for the crew of Star Trek's Enterprise, and the film's robot is clearly the prototype for Robby in Lost in Space. Walter Pidgeon is the Prospero figure, presiding over a paradisiacal world with his lovely young daughter and their servile droid. When the crew of a spaceship lands on the planet, they become aware of a sinister invisible force that threatens to destroy them. Great special effects and a bizarre electronic score help make this movie as fresh, imaginative, and fun as it was when first released. --Amazon.com
On the DVDs
On disc 1 of the colorfully designed 2-disc 50th Anniversary Edition of Forbidden Planet (also available in a collector's box), the movie is presented with a new digital transfer from restored picture and audio elements, with soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, offering considerable improvement over the film's previous DVD release. A selection of deleted scenes were taken from a faded and scratchy 16-millimeter 'work print' that had originally been viewed by composers Louis and Bebe Barron as they were creating the film's unique electronic score; they consist of full or partial scenes cut from the final film-- mostly for good reason, but collectors (and those who first saw this rare material on the original Criterion Collection laserdisc) will welcome their inclusion here. The 'lost footage' is crude special-effects test footage, primarily of interest to sci-fi historians and aficionados. Given the fact that the original 'Robby the Robot' cost over $100,000 to build in 1955, it's easy to see why MGM wanted to get their money's worth: An excerpt from the 1950s TV series 'MGM Parade' shows Forbidden Planet star Walter Pigeon appearing briefly with Robby, and the popular robot gets even more attention as a guest star in 'The Robot Client,' an episode of the Thin Man TV series (starring Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk) that originally aired on Feb. 28, 1958. Disc 1 also includes a gallery of seven science-fiction movie trailers dating from 1953 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms) to 1960's The Time Machine.
Disc 2 begins with 1957's The Invisible Boy, a still-enjoyable B-movie that served as Robby's post-Forbidden Planet showcase. Here, filmdom's favorite automaton plays sidekick to a young boy (Richard Eyer) who turns invisible when he gets caught up in a super-computer's scheme of global domination. Also included are three documentaries, ranging from very good to excellent: In addition to reuniting the surviving cast members of the '56 classic (including Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Richard Anderson, Warren Stevens, and Earl Holliman), 'Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet' is an appreciative tribute to Forbidden Planet with some of Hollywood's foremost sci-fi fans including special effects masters Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett, SF movie expert Bill Warren, and others. 'Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon' is a featurette about the robot's design, creation and pop-cultural history, featuring original 'Robby' designer Robert Kinoshita, Bill Malone (current owner of the original Robby), and Fred 'The Robot Man' Barton, a lifelong robot fanatic who now sells fully authorized, full-scale replicas of Robby for sci-fi fans with deep pockets. Closing out disc 2 is 'Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us,' a 2005 documentary from Turner Classic Movies, written and directed by Time magazine critic Richard Schickel. It's a thoroughly comprehensive survey of '50s sci-fi and its influence on the next generation of film directors, including engaging interviews with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, Ridley Scott and James Cameron. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - More to See
Excellent! I have watched this movie many times and had the VHS tape, so I was amazed at how much of the actual movie I hadn't seen. Old versions cut off the sides for 4:3 TV formatting. If you have a wide screen TV, you definitely need to get this and watch the whole movie.
Rating: - Early Sci-Fi with Class
For MGM this was a major "A" when it was released -- something they wouldn't do again until the late 1960's with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. This was an obvious influence on shows like Star Trek and Lost in Space. Leslie Nielson in his leading man days, the ever beautiful Anne Francis, Walter Pigeon, Jack Kelly (pre-Maverick), a very young Earl Holliman (Police Woman), Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man and not to be confused with Richard DEAN Anderson of ... Read More
Rating: - forbidden planet
If you ever see forbibdden planet in hd or blur ray get it , it's great.
Rating: - Question about packaging
I love this movie, and the copy I ordered just arrived from Amazon. The case was opened, however. It wasn't wrapped in the hard-to-open plastic sheeting, and there wasn't any security tape on the case. In other words, it just opened right up.
I'm concerned that this might be a used copy and that I might be missing some printed material. The only items in the case besides the two discs were the plain white piece of carboard with the security sticker, and an ad for TCM movies.
Can any ... Read More
Rating: - Forbidden Planet
Good story. Based on Shakespeare's Tempest. Great special effects for its time. The dvd has some good extras including Robby's second appearance in "The Invisible Boy".
I found the DVD was in fine shape, a good transfer and sound.
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