In Forbidden Planet Walter Pidgeon plays Dr. Morbius, a scientist who sets up a colony on desert planet Altair IV. “Modernism and the desert go together,” says Hess of the house in the movie.

A rare collection of props, costumes, and other materials from the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet will go on auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles this week. It's part of a larger collection ...

Earthly astronauts meet Dr. Morbius and Robby the Robot in "Forbidden Planet" (Image credit: MGM) "Forbidden Planet" scores a remake from writer Brian K. Vaughan and veteran producer Emma Watts.

"Robby the Robot" – from the 1956 sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet" – was sold for $5.375 million – a record price for a movie prop, the Bonhams New York auction house said Tuesday.. That ...

With Morbius dead, Adams, Altaira and the remaining crew escape the planet which is destroyed, the solar flare sonically represented by an electronic ripping sound. Forbidden Planet is undoubtedly a ...

March 1956. Dwight Eisenhower was president. Psychoanalysis was topical. New technology meant fancy kitchen appliances or the Bomb. Space travel was science fiction. And most science-fiction films ...

J. Michael Straczynski, the writer of the Clint Eastwood-directed "Changeling," is penning a long-in-the-works update of sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet." By Borys Kit, Jay A. Fernandez J ...

Learn more about the full cast of Forbidden Planet with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide. ... Dr. Morbius and his daughter. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, ...

A rare collection of props, costumes, and other materials from the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet will go on auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles this week. It's part of a larger collection ...

Of that celebrated group of 1950s sci-fi movies, "Forbidden Planet" also remains the only one that has mercifully not received a Tinseltown reboot, but that's all about to change with recent news ...