'Watched This Classic The Other Night..'

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That's a classic alright, Poor Robbie is probably in a museum somewhere. Unless
he got sold in a movie auction. :)
 
I saw Robbie on a show called Hollywood Treasures a couple months ago. He is in private hands and in excellent condition. A Japanese company offered him a small fortune for him and he turned them down. Some things do turn out right!
 
I watched that movie when it was first released. It gave me nightmares for several years... :)

The plot synopsis is a bit misleading, because it states that the good doctor and his daughter chose "to stay behind on this new world," right after stating that their starship "Bellerophon" had been vaporized.

Hello? No starship? No choice then. Really!
 
One of my favorites, and one of the few really good ones of the genre from the 1950's.
 
TeaSea said:
One of my favorites, and one of the few really good ones of the genre from the 1950's.
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I loved Forbidden Planet. It's one of those movies I get more out of every time I see it. I always thought Star Trek owed a debt of gratitude to FP, especially in the relationship between the captain and the ship's doctor. In the so-bad-it's-awesome episode of TOS, "Spock's Brain" Dr. McCoy even uses a Krell-like intellect expander in an underground complex - right out of FP.

There were a lot of quickly made Sci-Fi cheapies made in the 50s, but also some very interesting films: The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original), The Thing From Another World (I also really liked the 80s version with Kurt Russell; much more like the original short story, "Who Goes There"), Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Invaders From Mars -- all of those hold up very well, I think. I also have a soft spot for the 1953 version of War of the Worlds, although I must qualify that with the caveat that the film gutted H.G. Wells' book of almost all its philosophical content. When I was a little boy I remember being very impressed by the Martian landers, which were also a departure from Wells' mechanical tripods.

I could go on and on, but I'll shut up...for now.

JAMES
 
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