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Who is the actress in this "Forbidden Planet" lobby card?
I think that is Anne Francis, but she does not look right in that picture because the image was seemingly created from a black-and-white still that was ineptly colored. Notice that the colors on the ...
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Is Forbidden Planet the only movie that indicates something unusual occurs when dropping below speed of light prior to Star Trek?
The 1955 film This Island Earth has a very similar system (i.e. transparent tubes, likely taking advantage of the relatively recent availability of large sheets of clear acrylic) in Exeter's ship to ...
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Are there any Forbidden Planet storyline derivatives?
Star Trek
Forbidden Planet is indeed a real masterpiece, and one of the strongest impressions that I had when watching it for the first time was: "This movie looks like it's a Star Trek long and ...
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Who is the actress in this "Forbidden Planet" lobby card?
Whilst colourized for 1950's movie posters, the image is of Anne Francis on set, in costume and in a scene about an hour and 18 minutes into the movie. The angle is slightly different than the movie ...
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Are there any Forbidden Planet storyline derivatives?
As Ty Hays mentions above, Return to the Forbidden Planet is technically a sequel to it. When I first saw it, it was done as Musical Theater at a local community college, and it looks like it was ...
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Are there any Forbidden Planet storyline derivatives?
It's not a sequel, but there is an excellent novelization of the movie. It was written by Philip MacDonald (normally a writer of mystery fiction, as well as the grandson of the eminent fantasy writer ...
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Morbius speaks of a realignment in "Forbidden Planet"
I always assumed that the precipitating event was Altaira's birth.
Morbius: I have reason to believe that sixteen years ago a minor alteration was performed throughout the entire eight thousand ...
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Scene from Forbidden Planet where the monster kills Morbius
Here is a scan of an actual production script for The Forbidden Planet. There is no indication of such a scene, with the ending playing out essentially as in the final version of the film. Nor is ...
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What does the Captain refer to when he says "Something has been added"?
As I interpreted the scene(s)...
Altair has no experience or knowledge of humans or human interaction other than that of herself and Morbius. So, the crew are new to her, and male attention is ...
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Are there any Forbidden Planet storyline derivatives?
About the nearest thing to a derivative is The Invisible Boy (1958), in which Robbie the Robot features. However, it is set in the 20C, and I'm not too sure how he is supposed to have got back in time....
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Causes of Morbius' death and the disappearance of the Id monster
The novelization of the The Forbidden Planet came out in 1956, the same year as the film. It is credited to W. J. Stuart, which was (according to Wikipedia), a pseudonym for the mystery novelist ...
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Was Altaira's pet tiger created by Dr. Morbius's imagination?
It seems that the novelization of the movie holds the answer. According to Wikipedia,
While not stated explicitly in the film (although the basis for a deleted scene first included as an extra with ...
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Are there any Forbidden Planet storyline derivatives?
The Invisible Boy (1957) is sort of a sequel and/or a prequel to The Forbidden Planet (1956). Due to time travel it is sort of a prequel, happening centuries earlier, and sort of a sequel, happening ...
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How does the id monster in Forbidden Planet penetrate the defenses?
Please also remember that 20 years before that the id monster manifested as just an energy beam....
And the Belerephon?
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as the three remaining survivors tried to take her off.
The id ...
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Scene from Forbidden Planet where the monster kills Morbius
While I don't have any physical evidence about the missing scene, I have some compelling testimony.
I'm 58; as a kid Forbidden Planet was a BIG deal for my dad. I can remember the movie coming on TV ...
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Scene from Forbidden Planet where the monster kills Morbius
I have seen the original ending three times and no, no one is misremembering. The id monster enters the lab, picks up Morbius and tosses him—- just as in the attack on the ship. Morbius’sudden death ...
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How does the id monster in Forbidden Planet penetrate the defenses?
There is one thing that we have to keep in mind, every person, whether in fiction or reality, has a dark side and sudden fear that we try to bury deep within our subconscious minds but eventually it ...
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Why does the Id Monster not simply kill everyone?
Morbius is not a killer, but he does seem a bit conflicted. He just wants the crew to leave. He didn't want them to land in the first place, but since they did land, he tried to be a civilized host, ...
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