Outside science fiction, the film was groundbreaking as the first of any genre to use an entirely electronic musical score, courtesy of Bebe and Louis Barron.įorbidden Planet's effects team was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 29th Academy Awards. The Robby the Robot character is one of the first film robots that was more than just a mechanical 'tin can' on legs Robby displays a distinct personality and is an integral supporting character in the film. It was also the first to be set entirely on another planet in interstellar space, far away from Earth. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a faster-than-light starship of their own creation. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the plot contains certain analogues to the play, leading many to consider it a loose adaptation.įorbidden Planet pioneered several aspects of science fiction cinema. 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. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block. Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M.

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