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The United Planets Cruiser C-57D is a fictional starship featured in MGM's 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet. ... a chart table and the "main viewscope ...
Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on a film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen.
Robby the Robot originated as a supporting character in the 1956 MGM science fiction film Forbidden Planet. [4] The film's storyline centers on a crew of Earth explorers who land their starship, the C57-D, on the planet Altair IV, inhabited by the mysterious human Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who was born there.
It is the second film appearance of Robby the Robot, the science fiction character who "stole the show" in Forbidden Planet (1956), [2] also released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. According to an implied, subtle back story in The Invisible Boy , the robot is the same character as that in Forbidden Planet, which is set in the 23rd century; Robby is ...
Fred McLeod Wilcox (December 22, 1907 – September 23, 1964) was an American motion picture director. He worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for many years and is best remembered for directing Lassie Come Home (1943) and Forbidden Planet (1956).
Brockman, Jane, The First Electronic Filmscore—Forbidden Planet: A Conversation with Bebe Barron, "The Score" published by the Society of Composers & Lyricists, Vol. VII, No.3, Fall/Winter 1992 (ISSN 1066-5447). Wierzbicki, James (2005). Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet: A Film Score Guide. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-5670-0
James Best, Laura Devon, and Anne Francis (right) in "Jess-Belle", an episode of The Twilight Zone (1963). Anne Francis (September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress known for her ground-breaking roles in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956) and the television action-drama series Honey West (1965–1966).
The Forbidden Planet may refer to: Forbidden Planet, a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Forbidden Planet (retail store), the trading name of two separate UK-based science fiction, fantasy and horror bookshop chains "The Forbidden Planet", the twentieth episode of the British children's science-fiction puppet ...