| | Forbidden Planet DVD (10 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Horror DVDs, Family Movies, Science-Fiction/Fantasy Videos, Recommended, Classic, Essential Cinema, Monsters, G-Rated, Robots/Cyborgs, Space Exploration | | Starring | Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Warren Stevens, Earl Holliman, Jack Kelly, James Drury, Richard Anderson, Jimmie Thompson, George D. Wallace, Bob Dix, Harry Harvey, Jr. | | Director | Fred M. Wilcox | | Composer | Louis Barron, Bebe Barron | | Costume Designer | Walter Plunkett | | Director of Photography | George J. Folsey | | Editor | Ferris Webster, George Folsey, Jr. | | Featured Character (fictional) | Robby the Robot | | Producer | Nicholas Nayfack | | Production Designer | Cedric Gibbons, Arthur Lonergan | | Screenwriter | Cyril Hume
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Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; Behind The Scenes Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST is transformed in this landmark science-fiction film. Spacemen travel to a planet ruled by Dr. Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), who has built a kingdom with his daughter and obedient robot Robby. The good doctor is plagued by his mad quest for knowledge through his "brain booster" machine, and by Freudian "monsters from the id" as his daughter discovers other men and learns to kiss. Color by Eastmancolor. Shot in CinemaScope.
"Electronic tonalities" by Louis and Bebe Barron.
Joshua Meador, who worked on the special effects team, was loaned to MGM by Walt Disney Productions.
The story is loosely based on Shakespeare's classic play "The Tempest."
Rated BBFC U by the British Board of Film Censors. Forbidden Planet Reviews: "...Sci-fi classic....[Nielsen does] a man's-gotta-do-what-a-man's-gotta-do..." -- Rating: A-
-- Glenn Kenny, Entertainment Weekly "Filmed in CinemaScope and color and given a lofty sci-fi budget for its day....[A] perennially popular outer space variation on Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "[A]n irresistible blend of the sublime and the silly....[With] magnificent galazy scapes...[and[ colorful futuristic interiors..."-- Glenn Kenny, Premiere 5 stars out of 5 -- "FORBIDDEN PLANET is a feast for the eyes....This definitive Science Fiction movie has really never looked better..."-- David Richardson, Ultimate DVD "Over 50 years on, FORBIDDEN PLANET still looks like the future....An oddity that would change the face of science-fiction on film."-- Kim Newman, Empire Forbidden Planet Movie Review Average Rating: (4.4 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Robby the Robot is alive and well.
52 years later Robby in still working. His debuet in this number one scifi pic ,for a single movie, of all time is a must for all. Buy It Now.
We fans must lobby for the laser disc with all the extras that this does not have, blue prints alternate sceens and more,to be released on DVD.
Give this film as a gift to someone you love.
Submitted by Robby's friend Vincent (Florida)
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Old Time Sci-fi
Forbidden Planet, if you like Sci-fi this movie should be part of your movie collection. It is one of the top ten best Sci-fi movies ever made. As the old cliche goes: It made me laugh,cry, happy and sad.
The movie flows and has a good story line, the special effects are good for the time.
Submitted by stevepsokolow (Harwinton, CT. USA) 
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Watched Forbidden Planet at the "Picture Show" at age 12, never got over the thrill ! Leslie Nielsen plays the commander of the spacecruiser. To the Planet Altair 4 . The home of Mysterious Dr. Morbius 'Walter Pidgeon" With the Very 1st Electronic Musical Soundscape 1956 . This sci-fi movie is in an orbit all its own.
Submitted by ronluvshooters (Alabama USA)
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The DVD case said "Forbidden Planet" but the dvd inside was actually "Three to Tango". Guess I'll never know if the movie I purchased was any good!
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Great Classic Movie
THE Grand-Daddy of them all!!! Great family moivie.
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Forbidden Planet DVD Region 1
Letterbox - 2.35
Disc: FORBIDDEN PLANET
Snap Case
Dual Side - Single Layer
Full Frame -
1.33
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish
Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Additional Products:
8-Page Booklet
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Don Siegel's cult masterpiece, interpreted as an allegory of both McCarthyism and Communism, is undoubtedly one of the screen's most disturbing evocations of paranoia. It stars Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Binnell, a physician whose traumatized arrival in the emergency room of a San Francisco hospital leads the staff to believe he's lost his mind. In a series of flashbacks, he unwinds a bizarre account of his last few days. After his return from a trip to rural Santa Mira, his nurse, Sally (Jean Willes), explains that his office has been flooded with patients who have made appointments yet never appeared. Former girlfriend Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter) tells him that she's unable to rid herself of the belief that the man claiming to be her uncle is an impostor. A hysterical young boy refuses to return home, claiming that his mother is not his mother. Miles's concern over this pattern of incidents, temporarily allayed by some jargon from the town psychiatrist, is newly aroused when he gets a phone call from friend Jack Belicec (King Donovan), who begs him to come over and take a look at the strange mannequinlike figure that's suddenly appeared on his pool table. This exceptionally well written and directed fable, the ultimate comment on the subtly coercive conformity of the 1950s, may be Siegel's best film, and it is undoubtedly one of the most exciting science fiction films ever made.
DVD. Feature film. Stars Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, & Veronica Cartwright. Widesc reen & standard, Sound in Engl. & French. Subtitles in Engl ., French, & Spanish. Feature-length commentary by dir. Phi lip Kaufman, trivia & production notes, & theatrical traile r. 117 min. Rated PG. Dolby dig. CC.
| | Time Machine DVD (1960) Widescreen
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Closed Captioned; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Academy Awards; English Subtitles; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re
Setting the temporal starting point of the classic H.G. Wells novel in the year 1960 (rather than 1900), this engrossing adaptation follows the Time Traveler as he passes through World Wars I, II, and III and finally stops in the year 802,701. There he finds an apathetic, placid people called the Eloi and falls in love with one of their number, the beauteous blonde Weena. To his horror, however, he learns that the Eloi's apathy is generated by a maniacal, cannibalistic underworld--and that the only way to help them is to incite a revolution. George Pal's version of THE TIME MACHINE is an exciting and faithful cinematic production of H.G. Wells's 1895 classic. Academy Awards: Best Special Effects.
| | Them! DVD (1954) Full Screen ;Black & White
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Atomic radiation once again manages to transform tiny harmless creatures into gigantic holy terrors. Probably the best of the '50s phenomenon, this top-notch thriller witnesses an invasion of giant ants using the sewer systems of Los Angeles like a vast ant farm. Academy Award Nominations: Best Special Effects.
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| | Day The Earth Stood Still DVD (1951)
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Beginning with a documentary style that immediately hooks the viewer, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, based on the Harry Bates short story "Farewell to the Master," becomes as much a human interest story as it does a sci-fi B-movie classic. The film soberly depicts the arrival of an alien dignitary, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who has come to earth with his deadly robot, Gort (Lock Martin), to deliver the message that earthlings must stop warring among themselves--or else. After being shot at by ignorant, panicky military guards, Klaatu is brought to a Washington, D.C., hospital, where he begs a sympathetic but frank Major White (Robert Osterloh) to gather all the world's leaders so he can tell them more specifically what he has come 250 million miles to warn them about. Losing patience, Klaatu slips into the human world, adapting a false identity and living at a boarding house where he meets a smart woman with a conscience, Helen Benson (Patricia Neal), and her inquisitive son, Bobby (Billy Gray). Both mother and son soon find themselves embroiled in the complex mystery of Klaatu, his message, and the government's witch hunt for the alien. Made during the cold war--when Americans were obsessed with the destructive capabilities of the atomic bomb--THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, thanks to its beautiful pacing, excellent dialogue, and haunting score by Bernard Herrmann, is still a treat for contemporary audiences.
The film soberly depicts the arrival of an alien dignitary, Klaatu, who has come to earth with his deadly robot, Gort, to deliver the message that earthlings must stop warring among themselves--or else. Stars Stars Michael Rennie, Robert Osterloh, Lock Martin, Patricia Neal.
| | Journey To The Center Of The Earth DVD (1959) 20th Century Fox
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JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is based on Jules Verne's 1864 novel. A scientist heads out on a treacherous journey to the center of the earth. With him are an intrepid student, an Icelandic guide and the widow of a geologist who steals his information in an attempt to beat him to the earth's core. Along the way the group are confronted by all manner of dangerous obstacles: excessive heat and cold, gale force winds, and tremendous floods.
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| | Thing DVD (1951) Full Frame; Subtitled
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A wonderfully crisp script and quick-paced direction distinguishes this film about an alien creature discovered near an Arctic outpost. Members of a scientific research team cart the frozen pilot back to camp where it thaws out--much to their regret.
Members of an Antarctic research team are killed off by a frozen alien they uncover.
| | Death Race 2000 DVD (1975)
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More delightfully sick humor from Bartel (EATING RAOUL). In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians--with bonus points for the elderly! Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance. A legendary cult film.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Songxpress - Heavy Metal Vol. 1 DVD (1999)
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This instructional video teaches the viewer how to play four heavy metal hits on the guitar: Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train," "Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll," Billy Idol's "White Wedding," and Black Sabbath's "Paranoid."
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Steve Sayre and Garrett Stewart Sayre star in this thriller as Agent Steve Stone and Sergeant Jim Stone, two brothers whose assassination of a Columbian drug lord has upset his cartel. To exact revenge, the cartel plans not only to murder the brothers, but also to stage a full assault on Washington D.C. and kidnap Steve's fiance.
| | Phase IV DVD (2001) First Look Home Entertainment
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Dean Cain (LOIS & CLARK) stars as reporter Simon Tate, a man on a quest to clear his friend's name from a crime he didn't commit. The mission leads Simon on a trail of "accidental deaths" and an experimental drug conspiracy. But there are those who do not wish for Simon to know anymore than he already does, and will stop at nothing to keep him silent. Also stars Former NFL linebacker Brian Bosworth (STONE COLD).
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| | Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive: Vol. 3: Blue Sapphire DVD (2007)
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A new team of Power Rangers is chosen to hunt for five jewels that fit onto a magical crown, the Corona Aurora, before two dangerous villains, Moltor and Flurious, find the relics. In this third volume, the Power Rangers journey to Mexico in their search for the third gem: the Blue Sapphire. Armed with the Flashpoint Zord, Thor's hammer, and the canon of Ki Amuk, the Rangers take on a number of enemies in their pursuit.
This new volume contains bonuses including Blue Jewel - new DVD game and inside look at the incredible Ranger modes of transportation!
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