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Forbidden Planet(Movie, 1956)

1h 38min | Genre: Science Fiction
Forbidden PlanetRating: 3.6/5 (with 380380 votes)
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 an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, it is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s, a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the plot contains certain happenings analogous to the play, leading many to consider it a loose adaptation. Forbidden Planet pioneered several aspects of science fiction cinema. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a man-made faster-than-light starship. It was also the first to be set entirely on a planet orbiting another star, ... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Forbidden Planet

Academy Award for Best Special Effects

About Forbidden Planet

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

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Forbidden Planet (1956) Classic Trailer [HD] Leslie Nielsen Movie(Trailer, 3:40)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Shot in: California
Plays in: Altair IV
Based on the work of: William Shakespeare ("The Tempest")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 26 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 03/23/1956
Narrator: Les Tremayne
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Producer: Nicholas Nayfack
Screenwriter: Cyril Hume, Allen Adler
Film Editor: Ferris Webster
Director of Photography: George J. Folsey
Composer: Bebe Barron
Production Designer: Hugh Hunt
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"O Planeta Proibido"
"Planeta Proibido"
"Alarm im Weltall"
"Planeta prohibido"
"Planeta prohibit"
"Planète interdite"
"Απαγορευμένος Πλανήτης"
"Tiltott Bolygó"
"Il Pianeta Proibito"
"금지된 세계"
"Verboden Planeet"
"Planeta Proibido"
"Закрытая планета"
"Запретная планета"
"Запретный мир"

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