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{{short description|1956 science fiction film by Fred M. Wilcox}}
{{About|the film|the retail chain|Forbidden Planet (retail chain)|the episode of the British television series ''Fireball XL5''|Fireball XL5#Episodes}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Forbidden Planet
| image          = Forbiddenplanetposter.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Fred M. Wilcox (director)|Fred M. Wilcox]]
| producer       = [[Nicholas Nayfack]]
| screenplay     = [[Cyril Hume]]
| story          = {{plainlist|
* [[Irving Block]]
* [[Allen Adler]] }}
| narrator       = [[Les Tremayne]]
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Walter Pidgeon]]
* [[Anne Francis]]
* [[Leslie Nielsen]]
* [[Warren Stevens]]
* [[Robby the Robot]] }}
| music          = [[Bebe and Louis Barron]]
| cinematography = [[George Folsey (cinematographer)|George J. Folsey]]
| editing        = [[Ferris Webster]]
| studio         = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]
| distributor    = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
| released       = {{Film date|1956|3|03|Charlotte, North Carolina|ref1=<ref name="warren">{{Cite book |last=Warren |first=Bill |title=Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties |date=2010 |publisher=McFarland and Company, Inc. |isbn=978-1476625058}}</ref>}}
| runtime        = 98 minutes<ref name="IMDb-main-details">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/ "'Forbidden Planet' (1956)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713032501/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/ |date=July 13, 2018 }}. ''Internet Movie Database''. Retrieved: January 16, 2015.</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $1,968,000<ref name="Mannix">"The Eddie Mannix Ledger". ''Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles''. Retrieved: January 16, 2015.</ref>
| gross          = $2,765,000<ref name="Mannix" />
}}

'''''Forbidden Planet''''' is a 1956 American [[science fiction action film]] from [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], produced by [[Nicholas Nayfack]] and directed by [[Fred M. Wilcox (director)|Fred M. Wilcox]] from a script by [[Cyril Hume]] that was based on a film story by [[Allen Adler]] and [[Irving Block]]. It stars [[Walter Pidgeon]], [[Anne Francis]] and [[Leslie Nielsen]]. Shot in [[Eastmancolor]] and [[CinemaScope]], this landmark film is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s,<ref>Booker 2010, p. 126.</ref> a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest#Screen|The Tempest]]'', and the plot contains certain happenings analogous to the play, leading many to consider it a loose [[adaptation (arts)|adaptation]].<ref>Wilson [https://books.google.com/books?id=_YhlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22forbidden+planet%22+tempest 2010, p. 10.]</ref>

''Forbidden Planet'' pioneered several aspects of science fiction cinema. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a human-made faster-than-light [[starship]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/imagining-faster-light-travel|title=Imagining Faster-Than-Light Travel|date=January 27, 2021|website=airandspace.si.edu|access-date=September 30, 2023|archive-date=May 28, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240528210715/https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/imagining-faster-light-travel|url-status=live}}</ref> It was also the first to be set entirely on a planet orbiting another star, far away from [[Earth]] and the [[Solar System]].<ref>Ring 2011, p. 22.</ref><ref>Sydney Finkelstein. ''Superbosses''. Portfolio/Penguin. 2016. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5i46CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT58 Chapter 4].</ref> The [[Robby the Robot]] character is one of the first film [[robot]]s that was more than just a mechanical "tin can" on legs; Robby displays a distinct personality and is an integral supporting character in the film.<ref name="RHoF-Robby">[http://www.robothalloffame.org/04inductees/robby.html "Robby, the Robot"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629052848/http://www.robothalloffame.org/04inductees/robby.html |date=June 29, 2011 }}. ''The [[Robot Hall of Fame]]'' (Carnegie Mellon University). Retrieved: January 16, 2015.</ref> Outside science fiction, the film was groundbreaking as the first of any genre to use an entirely [[electronic music|electronic]] [[film score|musical score]], courtesy of [[Bebe and Louis Barron]].

''Forbidden Planet''{{'}}s effects team was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Special Effects]] at the [[29th Academy Awards]]. [[Tony Magistrale]] describes it as one of the best examples of early [[techno-horror]].<ref name="tony">[[Tony Magistrale]], ''Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film'', 2005 [https://books.google.com/books?id=yEbP7M_EOeAC&pg=PA82 p. 82]</ref> In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref name="2013Add">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/library-of-congress-announces-2013-national-film-registry-selections/2013/12/17/eba98bce-6737-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html "Library of Congress announces 2013 National Film Registry selection"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218140500/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/library-of-congress-announces-2013-national-film-registry-selections/2013/12/17/eba98bce-6737-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html |date=December 18, 2013 }}. ''The Washington Post'', December 18, 2013. Retrieved: January 16, 2015.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321232813/https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |archive-date=March 21, 2021 |access-date=2020-06-16 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>

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