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Epicurus.com - Forbidden Planet
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $14.99
Your Save: $ 4.99 ( 25% )
Availability: Usually ships in 7 to 12 days
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly
Directed By: Fred M. Wilcox
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569505926
Format: Anamorphic
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2000-04-18
Running Time: 98
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1956-03-15
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Editorial Reviews:
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A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair provides astonishing evidence of a populace a million years more advanced than Earthlings. There are many wonders on Altair-4, but 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 portrays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), the remarkable Robby...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.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Golden Oldie
Comment: As a collector of old movies, this is one I have wanted for a long time.
Whenever I want a hard to get movie, I come to your company. Thank you for the movies I have gotten through you and thank you for being on the look-out for ones I still want. Forbidden Worlds is a "classic" Sci-fi.
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Summary: Forbidden Planet
Comment: Forbidden Planet (Two-Disc Special Edition)Great movie, great transfer. Still better than most science fiction movies out these days.
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Summary: Revisit of Forbidden Planet
Comment: I admit, I've been spoiled by Star Trek and Next Generation. I just had to
take another look at my old favorites. I don't remember the actors but I
do remember Robby, the robot. He's one of a kind. Liked all the special
effects of the Krell Power Station. I was hopping for for another movie
with Robby. But I had to wait for Lost IN Space to come along to get my wish. Movie is worth the money. I passed my copy onto my son for Christ-
mas. Theme is timeless and the acting is pretty good. Maybe a modern
version will come out? But the old version will do for now!
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Summary: Robby Robot Rules
Comment: This movie is one hour and 38 minutes long and was released on March 15, 1956. Since this movie is based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, a book I never read, I cannot do a compare and contrast. In the movie, you can see some effects that Star Trek used in its television show. Basically the movie is set in the year 2200 and a group of soldies is sent to the planet Altair IV to find out what happen to a group of scientists who try to colonize the planet 20 years ago. Once the expedition reaches the planet reaches the planet the find the three remaining survivors. Robby The Robot, Dr. Edward Morbius, and Altaira "Alta" Morbius. Murders start turning up when an invsible creature start attacking the crew. The movie does have some laughs and tries to make a statement. I would recommend this movie to any. Just for the special effects alone.
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Summary: Time and Space
Comment: I remember this movie as a young boy sitting up one night and watching it on the family's B&W TV. What impressed me most was the invisible monster, and the vast underground complex of machines (and maybe Anne Francis' legs!). It was science of The Future, and it never lost it's hold on me.
So this satisfying DVD set came at a good time for myself, at an age where I can appreciate the art and technology (and Anne Francis' legs!) that went into it's production. As a hard-core science fiction fan, and appreciative of it's Shakespeare, I can relate to the thought and care that this film enjoys. The features added to the collection are great to view, with Robbie the Robot as the centerpiece of attention.
In all, I got a pretty good deal for the price, and am satisfied with the films. Maybe, as some say, more could have been done to make this a collector's edition, but this is a '50's movie people. We're lucky we got as much as we did. And the movie?..Still fascinating after all these years.
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