Of course, 'Forbidden Planet' was a loose adaptation of 'The Tempest'. It had fantastic set design better then any SF movie of the time and any until 2001 which it slightly influenced.
It was everything a good sf movie should be. It gave some eye-candy and all, but even more, it sparked the imagination and sense of wonder.
And then we were right back into visible wires and black and white and set backdrops with visible seams, and hokey plots, for another twenty years or so....
Dan
It was a wonderful movie and grabbed me from the beginning as a 10 or 11 year old in a little Arkansas town. Now it can't even support a movie theater so the people travel to a larger city generally Monroe, La. But when I saw that movie I was flying through space in that saucer and scared crapless. No monster is ever more frightening than the Unseen One.