Title:Forbidden Planet

Date: 1956
Type: Sci-Fi
Rating: 3/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Fred Wilcox
Producer: Nicholas Nayfack

Comment
A space ship is sent to find out why there has been silence from an expedition sent to explore a planet. When they arrive they discover that there are only two survivors, a scientist (Walter Pidgeon) and his beautiful daughter (Anne Francis). They are aided by a robot that he has made. As they try and discover what happened to the rest of the original crew, they find that the scientist and the planet has a dangerous secret. What makes this Sci-Fi film stand out from the other Sci-Fi films of the 1950's is the wonderful Robbie The Robot, and the performance of Anne Francis as the woman who has never never seen a man before, and who wears some very skimpy outfits. This was an early film that is set on a different planet rather than being earth based. The effects and the robot were then influential on other films. This portrayal of a robot was influential on thinking about robots at the time as it was partially anthropomorphic but still mechanical.
Actors
Walter Pidgeon
Anne Francis
Warren Stevens
Jack Kelly
Leslie Nielson
Oscars
None