When Commander Adams and his crew are sent to investigate why there were no communications from a previous mission to a planet explored 20 years earlier by scientists, he finds only two survivors ...

Loosely inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, Forbidden Planet's script was written by Cyril Hume. The film was directed by Fred M. Wilcox and featured a leading cast including Walter Pidgeon ...

In the realm of retro science fiction cinema, "Forbidden Planet" is unanimously considered a Hollywood classic and ranks at the top of almost any serious list of seminal outer space films.