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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Forbidden Planet</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/forbidden-planet/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Anne Francis on TCM: FORBIDDEN PLANET, BRAINSTORM, A LION IS IN THE STREETS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/anne-francis-forbidden-planet-brainstorm-a-lion-is-in-the-streets/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/anne-francis-forbidden-planet-brainstorm-a-lion-is-in-the-streets/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:21:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27644</guid> <description><![CDATA[As part of its &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; film series, Turner Classic Movies is showing 12 Anne Francis movies today, including three TCM premieres. Those are actor-director William Conrad's Brainstorm (1965), veteran Raoul Walsh's A Lion Is in the Streets (1953), and actor-director Richard Benedict's Impasse (1969). [Anne Francis Movie Schedule.] Brainstorm is about a scientist intent on killing the husband of the woman he [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/anne-francis-forbidden-planet-brainstorm-a-lion-is-in-the-streets/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>FORBIDDEN PLANET Review Pt.2 &#8211; Walter Pidgeon, Robby the Robot</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/forbidden-planet-review-walter-pidgeon-francis-nielsen/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/forbidden-planet-review-walter-pidgeon-francis-nielsen/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:45:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26659</guid> <description><![CDATA[FORBIDDEN PLANET Review Part I Forbidden Planet, as literate and well acted as it is, would not be such an iconic film without Robby the Robot, who can speak 188 languages, including dialects and sub-tongues. Robby steals every scene he's in, whether telling Adams, who comments on the planet's high oxygen content, that &#34;I rarely use it myself, sir. It promotes rust,&#34; or zapping a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/forbidden-planet-review-walter-pidgeon-francis-nielsen/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>FORBIDDEN PLANET Review &#8211; Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen d: Fred M. Wilcox</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/forbidden-planet-anne-francis-leslie-nielsen/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/forbidden-planet-anne-francis-leslie-nielsen/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:45:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/01/09/forbidden-planet-50th-anniversary-two-disc-special-edition/</guid> <description><![CDATA[FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) Direction: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Robby the Robot, Warren Stevens, Earl Holliman, Richard Anderson, Jack Kelly, George Wallace, Robert Dix Screenplay: Cyril Hume; from a story by Irving Block and Allen Adler inspired by William Shakespeare's The Tempest Oscar Movies Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Robby the Robot, Forbidden Planet By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: When one [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/forbidden-planet-anne-francis-leslie-nielsen/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Anne Francis Dies: FORBIDDEN PLANET, TV Series HONEY WEST</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/anne-francis-dies-forbidden-planet-honey-west/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/anne-francis-dies-forbidden-planet-honey-west/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:48:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25883</guid> <description><![CDATA[Anne Francis (minus beauty mark), William Lundigan in Henry Koster's Elopement Anne Francis, best known for sporting a futuristic mini-skirt in Fred M. Wilcox's classic sci-fier Forbidden Planet (1956, right with Robby the Robot) and for her tough, smart and sexy private detective in the 1960s television series Honey West, died Sunday, Jan. 2, at a retirement home in Santa Barbara, about 150kms northwest of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/anne-francis-dies-forbidden-planet-honey-west/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Leslie Nielsen Dies: THE NAKED GUN, FORBIDDEN PLANET, THE GOLDEN GIRLS Superlover</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leslie-nielsen-dies-the-naked-gun-forbidden-planet-the-golden-girls/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leslie-nielsen-dies-the-naked-gun-forbidden-planet-the-golden-girls/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:33:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25605</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; When most people think of Leslie Nielsen, they think of spoofs such as Airplane! (1980), The Naked Gun (1988), Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), and Wrongfully Accused (1998). Perhaps a little strangely, when I think of Leslie Nielsen, who died at the age of 84 from complications of pneumonia at a Ft. Lauderdale hospital on Sunday, the first thing that comes to mind [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leslie-nielsen-dies-the-naked-gun-forbidden-planet-the-golden-girls/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Walter Pidgeon on TCM: FORBIDDEN PLANET, EXECUTIVE SUITE</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/walter-pidgeon-tcm-forbidden-planet-executive-suite/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/walter-pidgeon-tcm-forbidden-planet-executive-suite/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:40:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25003</guid> <description><![CDATA[Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson in William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver I mentioned dignified, gentlemanly, and usually a little dull Walter Pidgeon the other day, wishing he had been cast as Jane Powell's grandfather in A Date with Judy (1948) so he could (more or less) have dated Carmen Miranda on-screen. Had that happened, you could forget Greer Garson &#8212; and Tracy-Hepburn, Ladd-Lake, Loy-Powell, Flynn-de Havilland, Garbo-Gilbert, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/walter-pidgeon-tcm-forbidden-planet-executive-suite/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Fantastic Reality: The Magic and Mystery of Movie Matte Painting</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/technical-personnel/fantastic-reality-movie-matte-painting/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/technical-personnel/fantastic-reality-movie-matte-painting/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:36:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16603</guid> <description><![CDATA[FORBIDDEN PLANET DVD Review: Part I Whereas the Freudian and Shakespearean cocktail of Forbidden Planet is a great example of sci-fi filmmaking &#8212; if not of great overall filmmaking &#8212; the other film in the package, The Invisible Boy, a black-and-white production directed by Herman Hoffman and based on a short story by Edmund Cooper, is a cute little movie that has moments as silly [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-invisible-boy-richard-eyer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
