Forbidden Planet (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Actor: Anne Francis, Jack Kelly, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Warren StevensDirector: Fred M. Wilcox
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: George J. Folsey
Editor: Ferris Webster
Producer: Nicholas Nayfack
Writer: Allen Adler
Writer: Cyril Hume
Writer: Irving Block
Writer: William Shakespeare
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Forbidden Planet (Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: Forbidden Planet
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent science fiction movie. It is unquestionably a true classic.Forbidden Planet (Two-Disc Special Edition)DVD Review: Forbidden Planet from seller Dvdguy
Summary: 1 Stars
I received my DVD and when I opened the box the cellophane had been removed. There was a note saying the disc was loose and they removed the wrapping to check. When I tried to play the DVD it did not work. I tried on both a Blue-ray player and on a regular DVD player. It does not work on either.DVD Review: Mr.Movie will be very happy with this one
Summary: 5 Stars
Well this film is Mr.Movie Steve Friedman,who for years has not only been the top movie critic in the business but a great friend to myself and others on The big Talker 1210 in Philadelphia.I had heard Steve talk about this movie for years and went back and looked at it and indeed its one of the true classics along side the likes of The Wizard Of Oz,plus its a chance to see Leslie Nielson be a real serious actor.Well Steve I,am glad you will finally get to see This Great Film your all time great pick and see it like it was meant to be seen on fabulous Blu Ray.
Scott Denny
DVD Review: Forbidden Planet
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like '50s sci-fi, then you will like _Forbidden Planet_. Not only is it simply good entertainment, it works hard at integrating the genre-specific with broader movie qualities, and thus stands tall and proud in the genre. Science-fiction gimmics and gadgetry do not drive the movie; rather the human interactions do (although some may be a bit two-dimensional), so you're likely to find it to have dramatic qualities, in addition to genre credentials. That's not to say that the effects are inconsequential--they're not, and they're often quite good. You'll recognize a number of things copied by later movies (even the later movies' "wow" scenes), which will ratify the legitimacy of the "old" stuff in comparison to the "new," which so often gets a free pass based on its high-tech abilities.
If you get the Two-Disc Special Addition, you'll also get _The Invisible Boy_, which you'll probably find tolerable, even enjoyable, but not on a par with _Forbidden Planet_. It's really a vehicle for Robby the Robot. Nostalgia yes, awards no.
DVD Review: Forbiden Planet
Summary: 5 Stars
As a fan of old SciFi I really love this collector edition of Fobidden Planet.
Description of Forbidden Planet (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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.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
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