Last night I flicked on Rogers on Demand to see what was playing and settled on a classic sci-fi film from the 1950s.Compared to most sci-fi films from that decade, Forbidden Planet was an intelligent, intellectually engaging story. Directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen, this 1956 movie, its characters and setting were inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest. The plots are very similar.
The movie was filmed in CinemaScope and Metrocolor. It features a number of Oscar-nominated special effects, groundbreaking use of an all-electronic music score, and the first screen appearance of both Robby the Robot and the C-57D flying saucer starship.
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