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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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Chicago citation style:

Hume, Cyril, Writing, George J Folsey, Arnold Gillespie, Irving G Ries, Wesley C Miller, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, et al. Forbidden Planet. directeds by Wilcox, Fred M.Ection, produceds by Nayfack, Nicholasuction [United States: Metro Goldwyn Mayer, ; United States: MGM/UA Home Video, 1983? ; United States: MGM/UA Home Video, 1994?, 1994] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/96506513/.

APA citation style:

Hume, C., Folsey, G. J., Gillespie, A., Ries, I. G., Miller, W. C., Pidgeon, W. [...] Lc Purchase Collection. (1994) Forbidden Planet. Wilcox, F. M. E., dir, Nayfack, N., prod [United States: Metro Goldwyn Mayer, ; United States: MGM/UA Home Video, 1983? ; United States: MGM/UA Home Video, 1994?] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/96506513/.

MLA citation style:

Hume, Cyril, Writing, et al. Forbidden Planet. dir by Wilcox, Fred M.Ection, prod by Nayfack, Nicholasuction [United States: Metro Goldwyn Mayer, ; United States: MGM/UA Home Video, 1983? ; United States: MGM/UA Home Video, 1994?, 1994] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/96506513/>.