Forbidden Planet (1956). To Krell and Back.
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Stam Fine Reviews looks at the 1956 science fiction classic, Forbidden Planet. Its influence on later science fiction properties is undeniable and it's a great movie in its own right.
Stars Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon. - Zábava
"Timeless" is a much overused term, but it absolutely applies to this film.
Its crazy how well this movie holds up
Just shows what real talent & imagination gets you🤯😀
I own a copy so I can watch it anytime I want !!
Marvelous plot, full of mystery + excellent acting + engaging and creatively produced environments which draw you into the story + a pinch of humor = TIMELESS CLASSIC.
The above is true for many films, but it is absolutely true for Forbidden Planet.
@@dankelly5150 Same here. Too good NOT to own a copy.
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ditto - the restoration was obviously done by fans with love
As a life-long trekkie, seeing this for the first time as an adult was like finding a missing early Star Trek pilot. We owe so much to this movie for what it inspired, and it really does still hold up for me. Hand painted effects like this are beautiful.
And when I watch Twilight Zone episodes, I love seeing the props from Forbidden Planet. So many it seems are in Twilight Zone.
Roddenberry admitted that Leslie Nielson's character was an inspiration for Captain Kirk.
Not just one of the best science fiction films of the 50s, one of the best science fiction films ever.
Still very watchable to this day.
Great choice for a review.
Still the best as far as I'm concerned
This influenced Star Trek so much, I’m surprised Leslie Nielsen never said… Space, the final frontier lol
Leslie Nielsen was actually considered at one time for
the role of Captain Kirk.
Would have been great to see Leslie Nielson as guest star in the Star Trek.
Despite the occasional goofiness, I really love the silent and ominous atmosphere of this film. It's just so hard to watch Leslie Nielsen in these serious roles nowadays.
Surely you can't be serious.
@@carlrood4457 He is and don’t call him Shirley
“I just want to tell you both good luck, we’re all counting on you”
Could have at least said "nice pussy" before he disintegrated the Tiger!
This is one of my favourite films of all time.
One of the earliest movies I remember seeing. Still amazed at the maturity of the idea at the stories centre, and talk about firepower ! This ship came loaded for bear, or in this case giant tree sloth. Love to see a 4K release for this title.
As a lifelong Trekkie, I can't help noticing Warren Stevens (as Doc Ostrow) also appeared on Star Trek as Rojan in "By Any Other Name." A living tie-in between those two legendary Sci-Fi worlds.
Also, Doc is the only crew member who calls the captain by his first name, much like Bones in "Star Trek".
I love the stark beauty of Altair IV and I believe the 1950's aesthetic of high technology still holds up today.
Always loved this movie. Its onimous tone, the visuals, the idea of the unseen 200,000 year dead Krell, the great performances...absolutely perfect.
One of my all time favorite movies and is, for me, a fine example of how special effects should complement the story, not try to BE the story.
One of my favorite movies, my favorite adaptation of The Tempest, one of my favorite robots. That was a stam fine piece of comedic reviewing.
Watched this for the first time last year and thought it was terrific! It’s just a beautiful looking film.
I'll remember this movie for showing me that Leslie Nielsen did actually have colour in his hair. And can do serious roles. I was familiar with him since Naked Gun so was unaware of his previous works until stumbling on Forbidden Planet.
7:30 To be specific, the "electronic tonalities" credit was because the musicians' guilds in Hollywood rejected the entire idea of electronics as a valid source of music. It was protectionism, machines-are-taking-our-jerbs stuff.
They had nothing to worry about. Sci-fi/fantasy scores have become so boringly and relentlessly orchestral.
Not actually. Bebe and Louis Barron had a reputation for electronic music before the film and the producers wanted about 20 minutes worth of their work. This was expanded to the full movie after test audiences praised the sound. They were originally credited for "Electronic Music by Louis and Bebe Barron", but was changed to "Electronic Tonalities" to appease the musician unions, as the Barrons were not union members.
@@miket2120 Yes, they were forced to not call their compositions "music" - just like I said. Plenty of non-union composers have still gotten a "music by" credit. Or they could just join the union. To my knowledge, this is the only time composers have been disallowed from even calling their work "music." And it was because their work was electronic. That was the difference, not their union status.
"Electronic music" didn't start to become accepted as an art form until a decade later, when Wendy Carlos's "Switched On Bach" became a hit.
The Musicians Guild, like the Writers Guild currently, engaged in destroying their own medium!
I do not know where I heard the following but it is a trip to contemplate. Have always loved this great film including the tonalities. Very cool.However, I heard that Harry Partch had originally been approached to do a score for Forbidden Planet. Can you imagine? I can't help but and can only imagine something spectacular. One of the best movies ever period. Where is all the damned new culture? ¡Come andale!
This movie is undoubtedly a classic.
I'm 58, and I first saw this wonderful movie on BBC1 when I was either ten or eleven years old. To this day, I've never been so entranced by any film.
nor I
In my humble opinion.... I think this is the movie that made science fiction main stream and gave it credibility as a genre. The special effects were amazing for its time, years ahead of any other science fiction movie of the day.
I would love to see a prequel film of the Krell and their society and technology, but even with today's CGI it would be very tall shoes to fill to match the casting and drama of this insanely great movie.
Such a good movie. Still stands up to this day.
Lt. Farman was played by Jack Kelly who about a year or so after this movie went on to play Bart Maverick for five years in the TV series "Maverick". Other notable actors in this film were Earl Holliman as the Cook (Lt. Bill Crowley in the TV series "Police Woman"); James Drury as Crewman Strong (starred as The Virginian in the TV series of the same years for nine years) and James Best (Roscoe P. Coltrane in "The Dukes of Hazzard).
Another Notable Actor was Richard Anderson who Played Chief Quinn . Richard went on to Play Oscar Goldman for 5 Series in " The Six Million Dollar Man " .
@@lalkayy.9541 And don't forget Walter Pidgeon!! A classic in his own right!
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Walter Pigeon was Already a Very Well Established Film Actor . Richard Anderson was Just an Upcoming Actor .
Earl Holliman also starred in the premiere episode of the original Twilight Zone TV series
@@lalkayy.9541 *and the Bionic Woman 😊
Excepcional film, superlativo!!!!! Masterpieces del cine sci fi... Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷🙋🏻♂️
My favourite sci-fi film. Not very fast paced and with an oddly claustrophobic feel to it, but when I first saw it as a boy I was immediately smitten. Especially when Morbius shows them inside the Krell machinery. The stuff of pre-adolescent boys' dreams. And what a brilliant and haunting soundtrack. I've lost track of how many times I've watched this film, but I would happily watch it again tomorrow. Absolutely of its time (very 1950s abstract fish art and shiny plastic furniture), but it still works as a masterclass in sci-fi film making. Creepy alien world, gorgeous scantily clad woman, foot crushing robot, and an (unwittingly?) evil scientist. What more could you want?
There can be no finer compliment for this sci fi masterpiece than the simple fact that nobody has as far as I'm aware tried to remake it. It really is a superb film which has truly stood the test of time. It is so good that you forgive it for its occasionally flawed special affects like the flying saucer & the scene where Robbie is supposedly viewed from a distance moving at speed across the landscape where there is obviously no depth of field in the shot. the gigantic machines of the Krell & the invisible monster lit up by the electric fence trump those in spades. I first saw this movie largely from behind the sofa when I was very young. Back in those days the flat I grew up in had a heater /light in the kitchen which made exactly the same sound as it cooled after being switched off as the monster of the id makes when it is burning through the metal doors near the end of the film, it used to keep me awake at night until we moved away.
Your comment is wonderful!
Surely not funny back then, but it's funny AF now!! Good story. 😂
Love this. I've got a really odd association with this as when i was a kid after my hamster died one night i was too upset to stay in my room and my parents let me sleep in the lounge and watch some tv and this was on, which helped me distract myself and slowly fall alseep. Strangley cosy.
1st saw it in the 60's or 70's (guess) and it blew me away! STILL DOES! STILL HOLDS UP! Intellectually exciting Sci-fi plot of Great Machine allowing creation by mere thought for a planet of creative geniuses! Much better plot than at least 95% of all sci-fi movies ever made including every Super Hero movie. Plus it gave us the cool dude Robby, The Robot: sophisticated, charming, urbane! Already proven a million times over to absolutely be THE direct link to Start Trek TOS! This movie is easy to adore!
Forbidden Planet actually set the standard for all future scifi.
This was one of the first fiction films I watched when I was a child and it left a deep impression on me, as well as the film The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor, two masterpieces of science fiction!!!
How do you always pick my favorite movies/TV. Love the channel. Keep-’em coming!!!
One of my favorite movies for 60 years.
I got to see this when it was re-released in 1972. It blew my then 8 year old mind and became one of my favorite movies. It is a little creaky, but the visuals alone have held up so well.
"To Krell and Back". lol. I had to chime in just to say well done on the word play. love it.
I am so glad to get your slant on this Film. I think we all agree this is a classic and the Film is also excellent.
"It's Morbin Time."
How dare you, good sir. How. Dare. You.
It could have been worse... It could have just been his *_BRAIN_* !
Amazing movie. Can’t believe it’s 67 years old.
absolutely adore this film. one of my favorites. this movie was the super nova that gave birth to all space sci-fi movies and series
I have the first stereo record player-radio to come (late '50s) to my NW BC 🇨🇦birth city, Prince Rupert. With it an LP, "RCA Victor brings you ... Sounds In Space" with dramatic effects.
I wonder how many people realise this classic Sci-Fi was actually based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" with Morbius playing Prospero, Altaira playing Miranda, Robbie the Robot playing the part of Ariel & The monsterous ID playing the part of Caliban - not many people know that! And the final line of the Tempest: "Oh Brave New World, that has such people in't" was borrowed by Aldous Huxley for his famous Sci-Fi dystopian novel - Gee, I never did know that!
Fans of Don Knotts movies would remember Anne Francis in his 1969 comedy film: The Love God, and those of us who watched the 80s detective series: Riptide, knew her briefly as Mama Jo; the madam of a houseboat brothel. 🤩👍
Saw this when it first came out. I was 6yrs old. Scared the daylights out of me. Especially when the steps to the spaceship are being bent out of shape as the invisible creature climbs aboard and this creepy soundtrack is playing. Such a good movie, I never forgot it.
The late great Leslie Nielson in a serious role
This film towers way above anything else produced in the 1950s. And, until CGI came in, the 60s & 70s also.
A great movie in every way. Stands the test of time.
It's definately a MUST SEE for any true Science Fiction fan.
This was a great movie , well ahead of it’s time
The 2nd DVD I ever bought was this movie. I loved it in the 1970s as a child and I still love it today!
Great movie.
Surprised we never got a sequel.
Or even a novel or comic tie-in.
A Novel " Forbidden Planet " by W.J. Stuart . Was Published in 1956 .
@@lalkayy.9541 was it a novelization of the movie?
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Yes it Was a Novelisation of The Movie .
@@lalkayy.9541 Did not know that.
Not the sequel I was hoping for, but I'll need to see about tracking a copy down
Forbidden Planet. The only sci-fi movie that matters.
The "light tubes" gave Gene Roddenberry the idea for the "transporter" in Star Trek!- Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet 🎺, Georgia Perimeter College and GSU 😅🎉❤
Creatures from the Id has to be one of the scariest things of all time
The special effects on FP were helmed by Buddy Gillespie, the long time head of MGM's effects department. He also did such minor films as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind." For all of the animated effects, MGM borrowed Josh Meador from Disney who did the ID monster, blaster bolts, Krell machine discharges, Robby's "shorting out" effect, etc.
The reason Robby and the LiS Robot look so similar is that they were both done by Bob Kinoshita. However, in FP he was mostly responsible for the mechanical design. Robby's look and functions were a creation of the art director, Arthur Lonergan. He can be credited with the whole futuristic look of the film.
I got the chance to write to Ann Francis. She was very nice to me one time even sending me a birthday card.
absolute classic
Robby the Robot in " Forbidden Planet " was Designed by Robert Kinoshita . who Also Went on to Design the Robot in " Lost in Space " .
Thanks for that. I was looking at this Robbie and immediately thought of the TV show. All is clear now!
Robbie even guest starred as The Robotoid on LiS.
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Yes Robby the Robot Appeared in 3 Episodes of Lost in Space the 1960s Television Series . " Ghost in Space " 1966 Also " War of the Robots " 1966 And " Condemned of Space " 1967 .
IMHO An absolute cinematic masterpiece.
Well, since your demo of the left and right audio channels, I have realized that I must have my speakers hooked up backwards. Your review of _Forbidden Planet_ is interesting and also amusing! Thanks for sharing this one.
Love this one ❤
Reverse the polarity will always work !
This was one of the best Sci Fi films ever.
The red outline of the monster at 11:08 always gives the impression that Disney was somehow involved with coming up with a cartoon monster.
As a kid this totally stunned me , now my comics are alive , so many Sci-Fi movies and series but who is 50 yrs later showing or writing to 200 yrs later ... well does not matter as we will all be soil dust by then !
I do love this kind of movies and this one is an very tight part in my collection.
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I remembered when I first watched this movie on TV and WoW it looks old but very well made and futuristic. Only later I learned more about the movie.
This movie along with The Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and War of the Worlds are on my top 10 list of favorite classic sci-fi movies.
Many of the special effects hold up to even modern movies today. The script, and plot are outstanding. A true classic.
Even today is still an amazing sci-fi movie 🛸
Even in this day of HD TV's this movie holds up like no other, ground breaking in so many ways. To me this is the scifi movie I measure all others against.
The "electronic tonalities" euphemism was coined to avoid trouble with the musicians' union. The Barrons weren't members.
It may have a silly sci-fi script, but it's got a GREAT story!
many bloomers felt in love with Ann Francis
Nice to see the clip from Dr Who, The Planet of Evil.
One thing everybody misses it's a third line in the movie spoken by Jack Kelly when he was asked how long until they have to go in the beams and he said 1701 minutes sound familiar Star Trek fans that's where it came from this was roddenberry's favorite sci-fi movie.! Mile marker Mikey Trenton Michigan one of the best movies ever made.
The camera work is very impressive. They really delivered!
I was 7 when mom and I saw this in a theater, when it first came out. I had a nightmare that night. Great movie.
Outstanding film. I always lump it together with another massive budget mid-50s space flick: This Island Earth (1955). Can't decide which one I like most?
I think Forbidden Planet's story holds together better, but they're both great-looking movies with some interesting ideas (and both obvious influences on Star Trek).
@@MattMcIrvin Yes, both Star Trek and Lost in Space were influenced by Forbidden Planet . And that is a big point. But This Island Earth is free of the cornball romance scenes we got in FP. Also it came first. But again, I can't decide which one I like most?
I prefer Robinson Crusoe in Space and When worlds collide. Tarantula and The Thing are also solid 50s fare. It came from Outer Space is good also. The Karel Zeman films are fantastic too. The 50s was pretty good for sci-fi, before it got hijacked by low budget schlock. Got to love those radiation/atomic related ones - Them, Shrinking Man, Amazing Colossal Man, Day the earth stood still, 50 foot woman etc. Invaders from Mars is solid too. Monolith Monsters is worth a watch, if just for the bizarre premise of it.
@@orbtastic Robinson Crusoe is the perfect example of a movie that needs to be seen in widescreen DVD. In the 70s I saw it on TV with a box shaped screen - and never cared for it. A few years back I got the DVD and liked it. Attention Stam Fine, please do a video on Mysterious Island (1961) or the very under-rated, if totally unknown, Ceasar Romero flick Latitude Zero (1969). Thanks.
I love both movies, and saw them at the drive-in when they were released!!
Great film ...
Forbidden Planet's slow monster reveal taught a lesson to Steven Spielberg, who loved the old sci-fi movie. It's why the shark appeared only very late in Jaws, not because the mechanical fish was chronically broken.
One of a few. Best sci-fi movies in movie history.
One of the best sci-fi films ever. It has everything. Flying saucer, invisible monster, mad scientist, hot babe, robot driving a hover car, ray gun shoot out with invisible monster, mind enhancing alien tech, underground base and an exploding planet.
Something somebody else always forgets about this movie the Creature from the ID in the outline of the beam is identical to a lion's head metro-goldwyn-mayer!. Mile marker Mikey Trenton Michigan. Still the greatest sci-fi movie ever made.
A Stan Fine double feature for some unknown reason.
I still listen to the music. Its timeless.
Before I retired I'd put on the video of Forbidden Planet background sounds and let it play for hours
Yes. One of my favourites!
I saw it as a young boy. It was, and still is, indescribable. I have never forgot it, nor it's effect on me, and never will. I still watch it from time to time
and I mean the original--at the movies. 1956
One of my favorites. Made the year I was born.
I saw this one day when I was young on a channel dedicated to old movies, everything about the monster I found terrifying, particularly the sounds that they used.
“the score is so weird it’s not even credited as music” - I read somewhere it was the Musicians Union, not weirdness, that was the reason why the credit is “Electronic Tonalities” because, like other unions across the USA, they had a stranglehold on their “trade” and feared the loss of professional musician jobs that electronic music synthesis would cause (groundless as it turned out). But that aside, the “tonalities” (as well as the movie) were a groundbreaking triumph
Original plot by William Shakespeare its a rewrite of the Tempest.
I think part of what makes it so watchable is how fans of its more famous successors can see the origins of their favorite shows. You could probably take any aspect of this movie and easily map them to episodes of any iteration of Star Trek. It's an excellent template to work off of.
Splendid work once again, Stam Fine. Modern Sci-Fi and special effects movies could learn a lot from this classic.
This is one of the best, and funniest, reviews of this movie. Or any movie! Great work!
Hilarious!
it is truly the best.
As a child in the 70's, BBC2 ran a Monday night scifi film slot at 7pm on a Monday. That was when I first saw Forbidden Planet and it left a massive impression, even in the 70's the effects stood up well against the shows I was watching on a weekly basis such as Star Trek (Before the digital remastering), UFO and Dr Who. Still in my top 10 all time list now, the storyline and interplay between the characters puts it in the legend list
The Krell invented Twitter and destroyed their civilization overnight. (Big machine, no physical connections, everyone got an avatar they could use anywhere in the world) Prophetic film.
He's acting just like Naked Gun lol. Feels like a comedy x
saw this on the big screen a couple of years back as part of a vintage season - beautiful-looking film
Must have been a Saturday matinee special, because that's where I first saw it and then saw it again. Ah, '80s tv.
"Forbidden Planet" was the first intelligent sci-fi film.
Much as I love FP, I think that title belongs to Day the Earth Stood Still.
This movie surpasses most later movies in its special effects. When you watch C-57D landing, you can see the ships' shadow under it. You don't even see that with many modern movies. The 50's produced a few really awesome movies. This one is the best.
Surprised no one has attempted to do a remake of this movie !