I still watch Forbidden Planet a couple times a year.
Really well done flick with a great cast.
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Funny thing, when Robby makes noise he sounds like an adding machine.
Bar bara I want my hog chocolate
I remember the Sears Christmas catalog back in the late 50s or early 60s had a “Robby The Robot” toy.
That was a great movie and Anne Francis was really pretty. Didn’t all Sci Fi professors have a hot daughter?
In a Columbo episode Mind Over Mayhem (1974
Forbidden Planet has to be one of the best, if not the best written Science Fiction film ever made. Aliens is right there too.
Does it get FM stations?
I think I remember reading somewhere that there were actually 3 different robots?
Saw it when I was around 10 years old living in Orleans, France as an Army brat. My Mom took me. When the creature came though the walls melting them I thought I would have a heart attack. Scared the living daylights our of me. Still one my favorite all time “space” movies.
Fate of the original “Robby” suit:
In 1971 the original 1956 Robby the Robot was sold to Jim Brucker and put on display at his Movie World / Cars of the Stars Museum, near Disneyland in Buena Park, California, where he was often vandalized by visitors.
Robot historian Fred Barton was commissioned to restore Robby to his original 1956 state while the robot was still on display at the museum. Barton used original duplicate replacement parts made for the Forbidden Planet suit by MGM’s prop department.
It was, however, in a desperate condition once again several years later.
The museum closed its doors in 1980, and Robby, along with his vehicle, original MGM spare parts, and shipping containers were sold to William Malone.
Malone noted that Robby had once again fallen into a state of disrepair.
Having built the first ever replica of Robby in 1973, Malone was able to carefully restore the robot prop to its original condition using additional spare parts which the original builders had stocked in Robby’s stage cases some 25 years earlier.[5]
The original Robby the Robot remains in Malone’s collection as of 2015.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot#Later_appearances
Forbidden Planet is one of my favorites, and I re-watch it regularly. And the Id monster trying to attack the spaceship is one of the best scenes ever. However, the movie does kind of fall apart at the end, like the writers wanted to just get it over with.
First off: Towards the end, when the Id monster is coming to the house, and Morpheus tells Robbie to kill it, Robbie knows that the monster and Morpheus are one and the same. The conflict slags down all the robot’s circuits. A robot that only someone with a boosted intelligence, like Morpheus, could build. Yet, 24 hours later, after Morpheus is dead, Robbie is clanking along perfectly, and even flying the spaceship home.
Secondly: As the Id monster is breaking into the house, Morpheus, Altaira, and the Captain run into the Krell lab. Now, we’ll ignore the idea that the lab, where Krell young are brought to be tested, is ALSO the monitoring point for the planetary power supply for the thought-creation machine. But, more importantly, after they closed and locked the triple-layer Krell metal blast door, (on the childrens schoolroom?) the Id monster begins melting through the door. So, how did Altaira and the Captain escape, afterwards? With the door welded shut?
But now comes the biggie: After Morpheus realizes HE is the Id monster, and that humans are not ready for the knowledge of the Krell, he instructs the Captain to initiate a Planetary Self Destruct System!
WHOA!!!!
Even assuming a rational race would construct a Planetary Self Destruct System, (not f&%king likely) would they place the initiator in a schoolroom where their children go?
More importantly, how did an alien researcher, who by his own admission, had only discovered a few, small parts of the Krell’s technology, know where to find the PSDS initiator, and how to operate it? Isn’t that the sort of information you want to keep hidden from all but a select few?
One other thing: When the Captain wanted to radio home for instructions, they removed an important part of the space drive to do so. Then the Id monster came and wrecked said important part. The engineering Chief said he didn’t think it could be repaired in the field, and then the Chief was killed. Who got the space ship put back together in time to get outside of the 100 million mile blast radius of the PSDS? The Captain was off chasing Altaira, the Chief was dead, and the XO was also killed by the Id monster when it was attacking the ship.
Maybe it was the cook? At least he was smart enough to get Robbie to make up some “real Kansas City bourbon!”
(N.B., they don’t make bourbon here in Kansas City!)