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FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)
Long before he locked up the Frank Drebin franchise, Leslie Nielsen made his mark in rather more heroic form as starship Commander John J. Adams in this Fred M. Wilcox-directed sci-fi pic. When Adams and his crew, flying the United Planets Cruiser C-57D, visit the planet Altair-IV in the Altair star system, he meets the mysterious Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his beautiful daughter Altaira, lone survivors of an earlier expedition. Morbius is the holder of certain dark secrets surrounding a massive "plastic educator" and a long-lost civilization.
The cast includes: Walter
Pidgeon, Anne
Francis, Leslie
Nielsen, Warren Stevens, James Drury, Jack
Kelly, Richard Anderson, and Earl Holliman.
Director Fred Wilcox's "Forbidden Planet"
is a classic hunk of space opera, 1950's style.
The Forbidden Planet Review
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