FORBIDDEN PLANET – Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon

Forbidden Planet (1956)
Direction: Fred M. Wilcox
Screenplay: Cyril Hume, from a story by Irving Block and Allen Adler
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Earl Holliman, Richard Anderson, Jack Kelly, Robby the Robot, George Wallace, Robert Dix
 

 

By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
When one thinks of 1950s science-fiction films, one thinks of the sort of schlocky black-and-white B movies that were parodied on the old Mystery Science Theater 3000 television show. Yet, while there were a whole lot of films like Plan 9 from Outer Space and Robot Monster, the 1950s did have some very good, if not great, sci-fi movies such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The War of [...]

by Dan Schneider | January 9, 2007   
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