[KevinDavis]

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Star Trek was designed around that great movie.....a classic.

[bwteim]

Classic

[EveningStar]

This is a truly great film. I saw it twice when it first came out and I've seen it many times since.

[Red Badger]

Good movie. Leslie Nielson should make a funny version in the genre of Naked Gun or Airplane!.........

[DoctorMichael]

Godd classic stuff. Bump!

[Jonah Hex]

[about oxygen] Robby: "I rarely use it myself, sir. It promotes rust."

[to Altaira] Commander John J. Adams: "I'm in command of 18 competitively selected super-perfect physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days. It would have served you right if he... they... oh go on, get out of here before I have you run out of the area under guard - and then I'll put more guards on the guards."

[Instructing Robby the robot on making a new dress] Altaira Morbius: "But it must be different - absolutely nothing must show - below, above or through."
Robby: "Radiation-proof?"
Altaira Morbius: "No, just eye-proof."

Cookie: "Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin'. Nothin' to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans."

Robby: "Sorry miss, I was giving myself an oil-job."

[Lurking Libertarian]

One of your faves, IIRC.

[RhoTheta]

Did the Forbidden Planet robot show up on the Lost In Space TV series, or did Robby just look derivative?

[sportutegrl]

Was there ever a MST version of this movie? I think that would be funny.

[doodad]

Yes yes The Tempest set in outer space. Love it.

[RandallFlagg]

Altaira was a BAAAABE!!
I'd post a pic, but this work 'puter won't let me....

[laweeks]

Ah, yes. Gorgeous Ann Francis. Fantastic legs. Few of our current "Hollywood Hotties" could compare to her. Just plain beautiful! The film wasn't bad either.

[rogue yam]

Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear
Claude Raines was the invisible man
Then something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace it came from outer space
And this is how the message ran:

Science Fiction - Double Feature
Dr. X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Ann Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Oh-oh at the late night, double feature, picture show.

I knew Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot when I saw Janet Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But when worlds collide, said George Pal to his bride
I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills, like a:

Science Fiction - Double Feature
Dr. X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Ann Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Oh-oh at the late night, double feature, picture show.
I wanna go, oh-oh, to the late night double feature picture show.
By RKO, oh-oh, at the late night double feature picture show.
In the back row at the late night double feature picture show.

[Lekker 1]

My kids rented that about 6 months ago. It was pretty good, but it took a little while to stop expecting some weird antics from Leslie Nielson.

[js1138]

I'm so old I saw it in its original theatrical release. I believe Quaker Oats or some cereal came with free tickets, which is how I saw it. The first SciFi movie I saw was "Them" -- also great.

I attended "House of Wax" in 3D with my older brother, but spent most of the movie in the lobby.

[Darkwolf377]

It stands up today because it was a true science fiction/space opera, not an action movie in SF dress. The set/cyclorama and especially the "music" added to the alien feel, and the speculation (inspired by The Tempest) was terrific.

I also prefer the title to "Fatal Planet" which was the original name.

Also, the monster from the Id is a parody of the MGM lion, and looks like that combined with Walter Pigeon's face.

The music, btw, is amazing and highly original. The Barrons, the couple who "composed" it, created these circuits, and then turned them on. What you're hearing in the movie are the sounds the circuits made as they burned out. No two could ever be exactly alike, and once they burned out, those particular progressions couldn't be recreated, and the recordings were edited to make the soundtrack.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

One of my most favorite since I was a little bitty thing.

[RightWingAtheist]

Another classic SF film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, just celebrated its 50th anniversary as well. Star Kevin McCarthy is still alive and well and working at the age of ninety-two! I don't know if Warner Bros is gearing up for a 50th annivesary special edition of it...but they are preparing one for Forbidden Planet. At least they ought to be doing one; I'm still miffed that all they included in the 50th anniversary DVD of The Thing From Another World was a battered old trailer!

[RightWingAtheist]

Has anyone pinged you to this yet? :)