Film, Video Web Page Forbidden planet
About this Item
Title
- Forbidden planet
Summary
- With the scientific equipment of a dead race, the Krell, the mad human scientist, Dr. Morbius, has taken over a planet through the use of his id, as discovered by a visiting spaceship.
Names
- Wilcox, Fred M., direction
- Nayfack, Nicholas, production
- Hume, Cyril, 1900-1966, writing
- Folsey, George J., 1898-1988, camera
- Gillespie, Arnold, 1899-1978, special effects provider
- Ries, Irving G., 1890-1963, special effects provider
- Miller, Wesley C., 1894-1962, special effects provider
- Pidgeon, Walter, 1897-1984, cast
- Francis, Anne, 1930-2011, cast
- Nielsen, Leslie, 1926-2010, cast
- Stevens, Warren, 1919-2012, cast
- Robby the Robot, cast
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)
- LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- United States : Metro Goldwyn Mayer, [c1956] ; [United States : MGM/UA Home Video, 1983? ; United States : MGM/UA Home Video, 1994?]
Genre
- Science fiction films
- Action and adventure films
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Videodiscs
Notes
- - Copyright notice on videodisc, copy 1: Loew's Inc. ; 1956.
- - Copyright notice on videodisc, copy 2: Turner Entertainment Co. ; 1956.
- - Director of photography, George J. Folsey ; special effects, A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving G. Ries Wesley C. Miller ; editor, Ferris Webster ; art direction, Cedric Gibbons, Arthur Lonergan.
- - Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Robby the Robot.
- - LC videodisc copies area reissues.
- - Reissue dates are dates from videodisc jackets packaging.
- - Copy 2 contains two videodiscs in one jacket.
- - A trailer appears at end of copy 2; may include other additional material.
- - Running time from disc jacket is longer than original 99 minutes; may include additional material.
- - On videodisc jacket, copy 1: ML100041.
- - On videodisc jacket, copy 2: ML104683.
- - Based on a story by Irving Block and Allen Adler.
- - Not viewed.
- - Source used: videodisc jackets.
Medium
- viewing copy 1 videodisc of 1 (optical) (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in.
- viewing copy (copy 2) 2 videodiscs of 2 (optical) (ca. 139 min.) : sd., col., letterboxed ; 12 in.
Call Number/Physical Location
- DAA 1224 (viewing copy)
- DAA 2392 (viewing copy, copy 2)
Library of Congress Control Number
- 96506513
Online Format
- web page
- image
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Additional Metadata Formats
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Contributor
- Folsey, George J.
- Francis, Anne
- Gillespie, Arnold
- Hume, Cyril
- LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Mgm/Ua Home Video (Firm)
- Miller, Wesley C.
- Nayfack, Nicholas
- Nielsen, Leslie
- Pidgeon, Walter
- Ries, Irving G.
- Robby the Robot
- Stevens, Warren
- Wilcox, Fred M.