STAR TREK FAN WATCHES *FORBIDDEN PLANET* (1956) FOR THE FIRST TIME! 

First movie I ever saw at 5 years old. Was shopping with my mother. I saw the poster outside the theater. Bagged my mother to let me see it.when we got home at the dinner table, I couldn't stop talking about it. My sister (age 13) was so impressed that she begged my dad to take her and I back to the theater to watch it. So the first movie I ever saw, I got to see it twice on the same day. Been hooked on SciFi ever since.

Based loosely on Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST and Gene Roddenberry cited this movie as an inspiration for STAR TREK

Forbidden Planet ushered in 'true' sci-fi. This I believe is the first movie to describe Faster Than Light travel using a 'Hyperdrive'.

These are the original special effects.

The ship did not have teleporters. Those odd chambers apparently protected the crew when the ship came out of warp/hyperspace. The Robot in Lost in Space was designed by the same person who designed Robby. Robby even appeared in one or two episodes of the show.

This movie is notable in that it was the first to utilize a completely electronic score.

"Everyone needs a Robbie." I agree, but built to look like Ann Francis. 😁

The idea of a highly advanced but long dead civilization leaving behind a vast, enormously powerful underground power station on a dead planet reappeared in Babylon 5 in the 1990s IIRC.

An utterly fantastic film, and a tragedy, really. Loved it ever since I first saw it. What a novel and interesting story. So well done, too. A timeless film, and visually stunning. I just love the sets, especially the Doctor's house, the Krell lab and Robby, of course. Robby cost over a million dollars to build in today's money. When I was a kid, I wanted to be Dr. Morbius! The Krell machine is a vast 8,000-cubic-mile (33,000 km3) underground machine, which after 200,000 years is still functioning. What you're seeing is what theatregoers saw in the 1950s. "Forbidden Planet" has had a profound influence on so many things it's difficult to recount them all. For example, you mentioned "Fallout." "Fallout: New Vegas's" DLC Old World Blues uses multiple references, including Doctor Mobius as a reference to Morbius, the protectrons clearly being modeled after Robby the Robot, and The Forbidden Dome being based on the film's title. Elements of the "Doctor Who" serial "Planet of Evil" were consciously based on "Forbidden Planet." The list goes on. This quote from "The Tempest" reminds me of language used in the film. It also makes me think of the Krell and Dr. Morbius: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

Forbidden Planet was the first movie that Conventional Hollywood put a big budget and pulled out the stops for visual effects and sets. This was considered high quality for the time. Its almost $2 million budget was unprecedented for the time. The plot was copied from Shakespeare's "The Tempest." The Movie was nominated for the SFX Oscar on the 29th Academy Oscars but lost to "The Ten Commandments". This was Leslie Neilson's (Commander Adams) first movie in Hollywood, and he was usually cast in his later films as an authority figure in dramatic roles such as the Captain in Irwin Allen's "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972). However, that changed with Nielson being cast in "Airplane!" (1980) as he had always desired a comedic career and was liberated by his role in Airplane to do so. Warren Stevens (Doctor Ostro) was also a figure of similar temperament in casting among them one of the later Star Trek TOS episodes. Richard Anderson (Quinn) would go on to other roles including Oscar Goldman in the American ABC television series "The Six Million Dollar Man" helmed by Harve Bennett. (Harve Bennett later went on to produce some of the Star Trek Original Series Motion Pictures Two, Three and Four as well as appear as an admiral the 5th TOS film). This film is practically a six degrees of Separation for Star Trek. Anne Francis (Altara) would go onto a career in both movies and Televison most notably "Honey West" in the 1960's. She has an extensive career of roles in both movies and television. Walter Pidgeon (Dr Morbeus) would go on to star as Admiral Nelson in the motion picture Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea which served as a pilot for the 1960's television series of the same name produced by Irwin Allen. Pidgeon was an almost A-Lister by the Hollywood standards of the time, but plagued by alcoholism according so some sources. Like Neilson, Pidgeon was a Canadian who made it in Hollywood in the golden age of MGM and the studio system. MGM would keep the sets and costumes which made frequent reappearances on such television series as The Twilight Zone. Robby the Robot became a star in his own right with the costume making frequent appearances in both TV and motion picture projects in the 1960's even up to the 1980's The costume was modified for some appearances with various parts either modified or deleted. Episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits in the 1960's as well as an appearance battling the Robot of Lost in Space. His appearance in Gremlins in 1984 included some iconic lines from Forbidden Planet. As far as Star Trek was concerned Forbidden Planet was one of the movies Roddenberry cited as an inspiration for the show. The TV Show Babylon 5 would feature some aspects of "The Great Machine" as the enigmatic machine on Epsilon III which the Babylon 5 Station orbited. (J. Michael Straczynski, producer of Babylon 5 was among the various people attached to various remake attempts over the years. WB has the rights as of last report with no remake contemplated at last check). References from Forbidden Planet can be found throughout gerne literature and movies as well. The rescue ship in the Firefly sequel movie "Serenity" is named C57D as an example. It is an iconic film which holds the hearts of whoever watches it.

The 'Lost in Space' robot similarity was well spotted: Robert Kinoshita designed both.

The "beam" you refer to in your final summary wasn't "teleportation." It turned a person into gas for a few moments so that an immense deceleration wouldn't turn him into a grease stain. Otherwise they would have to have spent months, rather than minutes, decelerating. Since you ask, another astounding classic from the early 50s is "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (not the remake). It's a lot of fun.

The ID monster reminds me of the invisible energy-eating monster in an episode of Johnny Quest. I think they took a lot of inspiration from this film. Robby was following Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, so he was well-read. Fun review - one can only guess how Kirk would have handled it. But probably not much differently.

Now HERE'S a true classic! The scale of the underground city is always the highlight for me.

The reason why the uniforms were colorful in Star Trek is because they were trying to sell the show to NBC. NBC was having a promotional push because they had just gone "all color" programming. So they made the show especially colorful on purpose and told them it would show off how colorful the channel was.

Less well known than Forbidden Planet, but of similar importance to the development of Star Trek, is the film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). Roddenberry first wrote about the film in a memo to Oscar Katz on July 21, 1964, prior to the film's Los Angeles release: I would like to bring to your attention a science fiction film titled 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars'. As yet it is unreleased in this area, but it has been given excellent reviews in Variety and the Reporter and is regarded as a sleeper. Since it is unlike many of the pictures we have been seeing, dealing directly with planetary exploration and survival, it might be a good idea to screen this one if it is possible to obtain a print. Two weeks later, on August 3, 1964, Roddenberry had seen the film and indicated as such in a memo to Herb Solow: As mentioned, I saw the above motion picture and considered it extraordinarily good, better than anything we have run here. Suggest we get a print when possible so that Oscar can run it for himself. Also, would like appropriate department heads and personnel here to see it. Would much appreciate your office obtaining a complete credit list for this film. Many thanks.

The robot was the most expensive prop made at the time. Around 10% of the entire budget of the film. It is often claimed to be the most expensive prop of all time, once you factor in inflation.

The planet Altair 6 is mentioned in the STAR TREK episode AMOK TIME.

'Forbidden Planet' is an effing MASTERPIECE. The concept and story are great, the colors are gorgeous, and the fx are all but seamless. The footprint scene is my favorite image. Morbius and his WIFE were the only survivors. Their daughter was conceived and born on the Planet, but the wife and mother passed away some time before our heroes arrived.

Forbidden Planet influenced Star Trek in several ways: 1. Both have humans travelling in interstellar space faster than light speed. 2. The visuals used to depict deceleration booths in Forbidden Planet were similar to the visuals used for transporter beams in Star Trek. 3. Forbidden Planet's C-57d saucer spaceship influenced the design of the Enterprise's saucer section. 4. In the first Star Trek pilot The Menagerie, the shape of the archways in the underground passages on Talos IV is similar to the Krell archways in Forbidden Planet, and both The Menagerie and Forbidden Planet have uniforms with shades of gray rather than the more colorful uniforms used in the aired episodes of TOS. 5. Both Star Trek and Forbidden Planet use 20th Century U.S. naval terminology aboard the spaceships. 6. The way Kirk and McCoy interact on Star Trek is very reminiscent of the relationship between Commander J.J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and Dr. Ostrow (Warren Stevens) in Forbidden Planet. 7. Both Star Trek and Forbidden Planet use particle beam weapons. In Forbidden Planet they use neutron beam weapons. In Star Trek, phasers are particle beam weapons. According to Memory Alpha: Most phasers were classified as particle weapons and fire nadion particle beams, (Star Trek: First Contact; TNG: "The Mind's Eye"; VOY: "Time and Again", "Demon") but some, like the Ferengi hand phaser, were classified as plasma weapons and fired forced plasma beams. (TNG: "Descent") 8. Forbidden Planet was an inspiration for Star Trek, especially for the pilot episode "The Cage". Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, said he wanted Forbidden Planet to "stimulate our own thinking." A memo from the UCLA files, which is reprinted in David Alexander's Roddenberry biography, sheds some light on the movie's influence: To: Herb Solow From: Gene Roddenberry CC: [Pato] Guzman Date: August 10, 1964 Subject: FORBIDDEN PLANET You may recall we saw MGM’s 'FORBIDDEN PLANET' with Oscar Katz some weeks ago. I think it would be interesting for Pato Guzman to take another very hard look at the spaceship, its configurations, controls, instrumentations, etc. while we are still sketching and planning our own. Can you suggest the best way? Run the film again, or would it be ethical to get a print of the film and have our people make stills from some of the appropriate frames? This latter would be the most helpful. Please understand, we have no intention of copying either interior or exterior of that ship. But a detailed look at it again would do much to stimulate our own thinking. Also, would much appreciate it if you could provide me with a credit list on that picture, specifically the director, art director, special effects men, etc. Thank you.

As far as I know, Earl Holliman, the cook, is the only actor still alive, and he recently had his 96th birthday!

It's great to see Leslie Neilson in one of his dramatic roles he was so good at, then he did Airplane and a comedic star was born.

Ann Francis dressing behind a tree... "Perfectly placed bush." I couldn't have said it better.

Well, not quite "just before" Star Trek premiered. 1956 vs 1966. Great, seminal 50's Sci Fi. Leslie Nielson in his best role before switching to comedy.

sticking with 50's era - I highly recommend: "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" "The Incredible Shrinking Man" "The Day the Earth Stood Still" "It Came From Outerspace" - there are many excellent 60's and 70's scifi movies, but I can only think of those above per the 1950s. Enjoy!

Anne Francis reported that Leslie Nielson and Walter Pigeon were constantly competing with each other on set telling dirty jokes.

I loved your comments and reactions to this film. It has and always be one of my favorites!

You will see one of the cast members, Warren Stevens ("Doc" Ostrow) in a second-season Star Trek episode as a Kalvan name Rojan.

That genuine ancient rocket bourbon will mess you up

The simple 'Standard Procedure' of a 360 degree visual sweep would have destroyed many episodes of science fiction series. You should try 'This Island Earth (1955)'

They saved Robbie ,a small piece of Krell technology. Earth is going to have a technological jump

"Lost in Space" had a saucer shaped spaceship, they used stasis tubes for FTL travel, Their Robot B9 had the same father, Robert Kinoshita, they had laser pistols & rifles. LiS used a similar central Astrogator.

They mention “1701" in the opening minutes of Forbidden Planet as the time (in 24-hr format) at which they expect to reach their destination. It’s not a coincidence; this movie was one of Roddenberry’s favorite movies, I believe.

It’s a measure of the maturity, pacifism, and absolutely civilized nature of the Krell that they stored a planetary self-destruct mechanism inside a kindergarten classroom.

Some other great sci-fi films are War of the Worlds 1951, The Day the Earth Stood Still 1953, Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959, The Time Machine 1960, Fantastic Voyage 1966, Robinson Crusoe on Mars 1965 and The Incredible Shrinking Man 1958.

I saw this movie during the 80s when Cable TV first came out. Back then, cable channels needed movies to play during non prime time hours.

Since Altair is a famous star and is very very close to ours 17 LY it is mentioned in several sci fi franchises.

One of my all-time favourite movies. I’ve watched it hundreds of times.

In Amok Time they were heading to Altair and they turn to Vulcan as they learn Spock could die in seven or eight days. (Well they make several turns as Chekov mentions in that episode). In a fanmade suplement for Star Trek FASA rpg table top, they include the krells in the list of species, although they never appear in any show of Star Trek, at least up to now.

History 102: Robbie the Robot was VERY expensive to create. Hence they shoved Robbie into any and all shows and movies they could to spread out the initial costs. And why you find him going on Lost in Space as well. 😉

After having the robot point a blaster right between the eyes, and telling it to fire he shows some more parlor tricks by slamming the shutters closed. "Oh, didn't meant to startle you. Lets do that again". Then slams the shutters open.

The first UFO sighting was in 1947 by pilot Kenneth Arnold. He described them as cigar shaped and moving like saucers skipping on water. The media garbled his description and flying saucers were born. Interestingly in 1896-1897 there was a wave of zeppelin (cigar shaped airships) sightings throughout the US and Europe. The most interesting thing is that the first zeppelin wasn't built until 1899, three years after the sightings.

I had a chance to see the movie on the big screen two years ago at the Angelika Theater in Virginia. They will have a classic sci-fi week on occasion. Having seen the movie several times I was still blown away when I saw it in a proper theater. This was the first watershed sci fi movie, in that it had a big budget and it dealt with some heavy subject matter. The idea that humans could be godlike but not have the wisdom to behave properly. We see it a few times in the original Star Trek. Captain Adams may be a bit more harsh than Captain Kirk, but his all male crew have been in tight quarters for over a year and they some of the most intelligent and most competitive men Earth has produced. Think Spartans all with advanced degrees in engineering and science and computing. Even Cookie. So he can't have a bunch of these guys with blue balls trying to out compete for one woman.

This was the inspiration for the "planet with great ancient machine inside it" in the Babylon 5 TV series.

Notice the "DC fix" number is 1701. Another interesting ship is the Enterprise, the first named ship of the royal navy, captured from the French, and keel laid in 1701.

I’ve loved this movie for a long time (I’m 70). Any remastering would brighten or sharpen the picture, but the effects were in the movie. The scene where they are walking on a gangway between the ventilator shafts used a matte painting technique (like the Star Wars scene with Obi-Wan fighting Darth Vader). The invisible beast light up by the force field was animated. I’d love to see it remade with modern special effects and a better script. Still, an all-time favorite. I think I first saw in in 1962 when I was 8 years old.

The household incinerators, like so many other appliances of the fifties and sixties, are approved by the Underwriter's Labatory.

Robby the Robot was built by the same guy as the robot from Lost In Space. In fact, Robby made a guest appearance on Lost In Space.

“Maybe if we _reasoned_ with it.” Pulls guns. Robot disables guns. “I find your arguments unconvincing, gentlemen.”

Star Trek definitely took inspiration from Forbidden Planet. Roddenberry screened the film for his production staff when he was developing the original pilot for Star theTrek. There's a memo from that time where Roddenberry references the screening and asks for stills or possible frame enlargements that he could send to the design staff for inspiration, though he makes clear that he doesn't want them to copy anything directly. He also asks for a list of the effects and design artists who worked on Forbidden Planet. Roddenberry used to deny even seeing Forbidden Planet, but the memo removes all doubt. I've always said they could easily remake this as a Star Trek film. It has all the elements of a classic Trek episode. A starship from a Starfleet like organization checking up on a space colony. The discovery of an ancient alien civilization and their technology. How many Trek episodes have those elements. Even the main group of the captain, ship's doctor, and first officer matches the core characters of the original Trek. Though in this case the doctor is closer to Spock. All you'd really have to do is change the designs and plug in Trek characters.

When I first saw The Cage I was struck with how similar to Forbidden Planet it seemed. It's definitely a bridge between this and show I was familiar with.

In the opening narration, please note that they place the Moon landing in the 2090’s. Not the 1990’s, the _twenty_ nineties! In 1956, the optimists thought space travel was a hundred years away, while the pessimists thought it was _five hundred_ . People who liked this sort of thing were thought to be insane to the point that others should keep an eye on them-picture the minimum security wing of Arkham Asylum. As it happened, it was not one hundred years but only _nineteen months_ later that mankind would finally launch something into space.

During the 1950s and 60s most American adult males had served in the military and most of them had seen some form of combat. Science fiction in those days was geared mainly to young men. So a lot of science fiction, in those days, had very overtly military tone and themes to their plots. The first season of Star Trek plays to this more than it does in the later two seasons. The character of "cookie" is supposed to play the roll of typical enlisted man in the service. Not too bright, harmless but always looking for an opportunity to push boundaries. The officers are like in their own club, more intelligent and educated but still chauvinistic skirt chasers.

When I first saw the monster from this movie, part of me thought it looked like a Steven King's version of Pete's Dragon.

Another classic is George Pal's The War of the Worlds(1953) and one of my Favorite 'b' sci-fi movies 'I Married a Monster from Outer Space(1959 B&W)'

Richard Anderson is the comms officer and in the 70's he became famous as Oscar Goldman, Steve Austin's boss in the cult show, The Six Million Dollar Man. The ID creature FX were rotoscoped, hand-drawn by a Disney artist -no CGI back then!. The beam the enter to decelerate functions a bit like Trek's inertial damping field, it counteracts the G forces of deceleration by 'freezing' your atomic structure temporarily. Not only was the movie the inspiration for Star Trek but Robbie has the line, 'a simple blaster'...wind forward about 20 years to Star Wars and Lucas has Solo use a 'blaster'. This film and 2001 are probably the most influential in movie SF. It also has the first ever totally electronic score, something that miffed Hollywood musicians unions at the time so they had to call it 'Electronic Tonalities'. Only people like Vangelis would do it much later in the 80's, and this was the 50's!.

I consider Forbidden Planet a prequel to Star Trek. Change the C57D to Enterprise, captain, XO & doc to Kirk, Spock & McCoy, and it would play out fine. *Following up on a colony, ship/expedition showed up several times during Star Trek, usually with similar consequences. *It introduces the triumvirate of captain, ship's doctor & executive officer (science/1st officer in Star Trek). *It had a Star Trekkian twist to the end. A couple of examples: - Devil in the Dark shows that the human colonists are the bad guys & the Horta, the monster is a valient guardian of the next generation of her kind. They come to a mutually beneficial coexistence. - Enemy Within splits Kirk into, not his good & evil selves but his negative & positive aspects. He finds that he needs both halves to be a Starship captain. So the Krel monster, being a manifestation of Morbius's subconscious, would fit right into Star Trek. *Also, it's not much of a leap from United Planet Cruiser C57D to Federation of United Planets. 🌟 🚀 👩‍🚀 🖖

This movie had a big influence on Roddenberry and what he wanted to do with his Star Trek idea. One of the elements of this movie, that was and still is very unique, is the design of the Earth spaceship. It's a flying saucer! Roddenberry insisted to the art department that his "Starship" would not look like a rocket. He knew he couldn't directly copy Forbidden Planet's flying saucer design so he told them to come up with something else. So the designers attached rocket engines to a flying saucer and the iconic "Enterprise" was born. Lost in Space would also adopt the flying saucer shape as Earth's future of space travel. It's a shame this concept would be later dropped for a more contemporary, clunky, Star Wars look to outer space travel. We seem to now want to cling to the idea that some kind of rocket thrust will be the only way we will ever travel through space. Not so!

Love this movie. Roddenberry stated it was part of his inspiration for Trek. Anne Francis as Altaira was gorgeous and really good in the role. These are all the original FX and sets. It's a gorgeous film. Altair is also in Star Trek and is a real star about 17 light years from Earth and pretty bright in the night sky. Dunno if any Krell hung out there tho.

The "DC" fix at the very beginning was 1701. What was the hull number of Star Trek Enterprise? When the skipper first talks with Morbius over the radio he tell Morbius the spacecraft number is C-57D. In the film Serenity, when they go to the world called Miranda, after landing and when they get to the place to discover how and why the Reavers came into existence there is a crashed shuttle there with it's hull number, C-57D. There are more, both Roddenberry and Whedon have both said this is one of the most influential sci-fi films of all time! As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

Robby the robot was also in the movie The Invisible Kid and appeared on The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis Show, the Twilight Zone, Mork and Mindy, Adams Family, Wonder Woma,. Lost In Space and several other television shows.

As in "Star Trek", the captain here is played by a Canadian actor, famous later on as a comedic actor, Leslie Nielsen. The other male lead in this movie, Dr. Morbius, is also played by a Canadian, Walter Pidgeon of Montreal, my hometown. It is also the hometown of William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and Leonard Cohen, the legendary poet and singer ("Suzanne", "Hallelujah"). ---OronOfMontreal

Jack Kelly would go on to play Bart Maverick in the comical western show Maverick. He was basically the same smooth lady’s man as he is here.

I can see where the Lost In Space designers have taken elements from the interior ship design and incorporated it into The Jupiter 2 of the 60's.

The "sound effects," are actually the music, or as they're called in the credits, "electronic tonalities."

Oh...I forgot one more "Lost in Space" similarity. The freezing tubes in the TV show, seemed similar to those stasis tubes in the movie (more so, than the transporter tubes in "Star Trek", I would say.

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Altair is our name for the brightest star in Aquila. Altair IV would be, counting from closest to the star on out, the star's fourth planet (if it has any). Earth is sol III, in this context.

The Altair system was mentioned in Star Trek, as was Altair III, IV, and VI.

Yep. I think Forbidden Planet was the first big scifi movie where earth humans were shown as the advanced spacefarers (using a saucer-shaped ship, no less) rather than having aliens visiting (The Day the Earth Stood Still) and/or attacking earth (Earth vs the Flying Saucers). There actually is a ST:TOS episode "Shore Leave" which may have been inspired a bit from the movie. What we don't know till the end of the ep is that they are on an amusement park / vacation planet, where the alien technology creates things the crew desire by reading their minds... or something like that. Mayhem, stupid gags, and tragedy ensue.

She does have the ability to tame wild tigers. Influencing the behaviour of men and the captain is implied.

How familiar are you with the plays by William Shakespeare? It's largely based on The Tempest. So a movie almost 70 years old based on a more than 400 year old play. A double classic!

I saw this film in theaters several times when I was a child. (This would have been in 1960 or thereabouts.) It looks the same as it did back then. The electronic score, the subtle animation of the creature from the Id, the heavy handed references to The Tempest (which I saw about the same time) And the amazing special effects made this film an unforgettable experience. It was absolutely groundbreaking. Unlike anything before it. Until then science fiction movies were all cheap and cheesy. This one was the first to take itself seriously.

Almost the first film that I ever saw, the first being Fantastic Voyage with Raquel Welch. I must have seen both on holiday in the early 70s. I had read The Tempest and twigged very quickly that Altaira is Miranda and Morbius is Prospero. The ID Monster is Caliban and Robby is Ariel. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter At Farpoint. Picard: I see in your file that Captain DeSoto thinks very highly of you. One curious thing, however, you refused to let him beam down to Altair Three. Riker: In my opinion, sir, Altair Three was too dangerous to risk exposing the Captain. Picard: I see. A Captain's rank means nothing to you.

Makes one want to make a joke about the scientist's daughter...

Hi Will, Forbidden planet came out when I was 4 years old so a bit young to see it in the cinema. But in the 1960s when I was 8-18 it was show often on TV and I saw it several times and enjoyed it immensely. Did you notice the movie score was entirely electronic? The Actor you thought was Josh Brolin was actually Walter Pidgeon 1897-1984 who was an important actor at that time in films from 1926 - 1978 (Funny Girl, Advice and Consent, Mrs Miniver) The monster was designed and animated by Disney Studios. It was one of several High Budget SciFi flick the first being "The Day the Earth Stood Still" 1951. You're in for a lot of fun. All the best Jacques Mexico retired

MGM studios had a large animation department in the 1950s for their Tom and Jerry cartoons. They employed their animators for the rotoscoping and some of the other special effects. If the ID creature appears to have something of a cartoon like appearance, its because of who they were using to create the effect.

Remember the coilled tubing... then when you watch Star Trek:First Contact... enjoy Barclays easter egg appearance

The guns are blasters, which is stated in the Robbie scene 😊

People really underestimate how far ahead sci-fi has been. There's also a movie from the 1950's The Invisible Boy(with the same robot) about a machine that becomes self aware and try's to destroy humanity.

The scene of the vast tunnel with people walking across has been used many times. Think Star Wars with the power towers running up and down with Obie Wan throwing the switch.

Excellent reaction, my friend. Yes, there are bits of Star Trek scene in here. Also correction things they improved on this when they did Star Trek for instance, in the beginning of the movie when you see them in the little tubes with the flashing light around, looks like a transporter it’s actually they’re in stasis spin. They were sleeping for The Journey to alter for they could travel only at lights speed worp drive goes faster than light to go to sleep. Those tubes wouldn’t age for long trip when you go faster than you don’t have to have your age normally noticed when they arrived there the time index was 1701 which is the number of the enterprise, also I’ll tell the system on Star Trek is where dielithium crystal minds are the power the wrop drive an alter for is the planet where Dr. McCoy on Star Trek Forest says I’ll tear water went to the bar but actually Marvel uses this movie more because the enemy race of aliens invaders in the avengers is the Crill then again to complain about it later because they change it to the scroll later by the way, the captain of the ship, Leslie Nielsen will lead be on for being coming actor starring in movies like the naked gun series and police squad and airplane movies so it’s real shock for people who seen those movies in this part, more serious thanks for the fun until next time

I figure one reason the tiger had to go feral was to have a chance to demonstrate the destructive power of their sidearms, referred to only as "blasters" (so this movie may have influenced George Lucas as well). I always thought that the tiger acted innocently towards the daughter when she was innocent - like Eve before the fall - perhaps the planet's machinery was picking up on her more innocent mind and nudging the animals to be submissive to her. But then with either the loss of her innocence (to the extent that would be the case with her going on a smooching spree) combined with Morbius's id getting stirred up by his agitation with the visiting ship and its crew, the animals reverted to their usual behavior around her. So it attacked, or perhaps it was just attacking the captain. I also liked how in this film people weren't expected to suddenly stop believing in God just because they developed FTL drives.

Robbie the Robot! He inspired Lost in Space's robot and Fallout, not the other way around.

Robbie the robot had a guest appearance in Lost In Space, as an evil robot that Will Robinson finds abandoned and gets working again. Robbie tries to win favour with the Robinsons and replace the B2 Lost In Space robot. I always thought Forbidden Planet was more similar to Lost In Space than Star Trek. The centre dome astrogater is similar to the one on the Jupiter 2 and they both had to go into suspended animation to decelerate from light speed.

(Star Trek) Enterprise had plain blue uniforms for the NX-01's personnel. ST:The Motion Picture also used plainer pale blues and tans...

Forbidden Planet directly influenced Lost in Space - with the Robot in Lost in Space resembling Robby the Robot , and the Jupiter 2 saucer spaceship in Lost in Space resembling the C-57d saucer spaceship in Forbidden Planet. Forbidden Planet also featured the first appearance of Robby the Robot who would later make two appearances on Lost in Space.

Some side note. I wonder how did they survive being on a spaceship for over a year. I'm guessing they made a day or two stop over at various planets to relieve the stress of being onboard a ship. Or maybe being on accelerated state, the travel time was less than a year from their perspective.

"Forbidden Planet" was the first big budget SciFi movie produced in Hollywood. And, as some have noted below, it was the first movie to use electronic sounds as it's primary sound effects. Gene Roddenberry was very influence by this movie in his creation of Star Trek, and said so on many occasions. A very varied script, with quite a few newer psychological and physiological concepts thrown at the audience, and the cast. Professor Moebeus was played by Walter Pidgeon, a big time actor. And Anne Francis also had a leading role in the movie "Bad Day At Black Rock", which you may enjoy. Other famous actors in this movie, Leslie Nielson, Richard Anderson and alcoholic Cook Earl Holliman.

The story is basically Shakespeare's "Tempest"

The 'teleportation' beams were stais devices to allow the ship to achieve high deceleration without killing the crew. An interesting factoid, is that in the original pilot of Star Trek, and never actually countered until probably Star Trek:Enterprise, it was stated that Enterprise NCC1701 was one of the first to be fitted with the new Space Drive, later called Warp Drive, superceding an older space drive. it wouldn't be a big step to suggest that Forbidden Planet in the original conceptualisation of STar Trek, could be considered a story set in the pre-Federation era.. Recalling oif course that in the pilot the United Federation of Planets did not yet exist,l but was The United Earth Planets. And it would be even possible to extend the link into The Next Generation. WHat if, some of the Krell actually survived the catastrophe, realised what was killing them, and managed to divest themselves of their 'Dark Sides' banishing them to exile onto various planets across the Universe. One could iomagine these existing as formless black oozes with no specific shape, with no morals, but possesing unimaginable abilities. And then the surviving Krell just sort of continuing to exist, for the most part without purpose. ANd then what if Krell was actually spelt.. Q'rell... shortened to..... Ah but I really should not start spouting my formless Heresies, especially late at night when work beckons early in the morning... especially when there more.. oh so much more of what MIGHT have been, had the writers been consistant and actually joined up the numerous dots... such as. the builders of the Dyson Sphere being oh so obvious, which could have even been another STar Trek series. And so... to bed... perchance to dream

Classic is an understatement!

Think of the Great Machine on the planet next to Babylon 5, when looking at the Krell Machine. Some years later the Cook was with John Wayne in the Sons Of Katie Elder, then with Angie Dickenson in the series Police Woman.

" Good thing, Capt. Kirk isn't here... " Ah.. ya ... about that. Hold that thought.

The shots of the Krell machinery was recreated in Babylon 5 . 21:16

Notice the ship has been infiltrated by the Kelvin from Star Trek... Check out the First Officer.

They even had the "reverse polarity" thing back then.

Here's what they were going for, in the moments when the tiger suddenly turns and attacks Altara and Captain Adams: Altara is meant to be a kind of proxy for / parallel to Eve, in the Garden of Eden: She is "at one" with nature and with the animals. She has never 'known' a man; She is "uncontaminated" by human civilization, apart from her father and what he taught to her. Her question, "Why should people want to kiss each other?" suggests that she has no libido (until Captain Adams awakens it). That's another parallel to "Adam and Eve," - "They were naked, and they were not ashamed." (One interpretation is: Adam and Eve had animal instincts, but did not have "human lust" and did not have a sense of embarrassment at being naked: they were ••not separated•• from the animal kingdom. Once Altara's sexual attraction is activated (by Captain Adams and his masculinity - in his dismissal of subordinates and in his setting boundaries for Altara on what she may wear in front of horny crewmen), that is the equivalent to Adam and Eve "falling from Grace" and being evicted from the Garden of Eden: Altara, like the Biblical figures, have become •separated• from the animals, by human love and human sexuality. To underscore this point, Altara, bewildered, asks: "He (the tiger) didn't RECOGNIZE me!! Why?" And Adams replies "You really don't know, do you?" The tiger didn't recognize Altara, because Altara-the-new-woman-who-is-sexually-attracted-to-Adams, is a different being than the one who had existed before. The tiger attacked, as if she were a stranger. The intended audience for 'Forbidden Planet' in the 1950s, would have been much more thoroughly educated in Biblical literature than most of us are currently, so they would have 'caught' this narrative 'shorthand' that the film was pitching. Today's audiences, without this background, are somewhat clueless. Most will have a reaction of, "OK, the film is trying to say something, but I don't know what." It's not completely clear why the writers wanted to make Altara (as we're introduced to her) into a pre-sexual, Eve-like figure. (To indulge viewers with the fantasy of a stunningly beautiful woman who is mentally-emotionally completely pure and virginal, for Adams to 'fall into place' as her romantic companion?) It's clear that Morbius has tired of Earth civilization (which is why he didn't want to return.) I think he purposely engineered Altara's education with gaps: She knows math and physics, but not Earth's history or classical literature. (If she'd been exposed to the basics of literature, she wouldn't ask the question: "But why should people want to kiss each other?") Star Trek TOS has an episode, late in its third season, that is a sort of parallel to this film. (The episode, "Requiem for Methuselah"). You can keep that title in mind for when you eventually work your way through the series, to it.

If you do an original series "Twilight Zone" watching, you'll find just about every space based episode reused costumes, props, and stock footage from FP. Also Robbie the Robot was repurposed as "Uncle Simon".

Robbie the robot did make a appearance on the lost in space TV show