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 ...
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.
A 1991 recording of the jukebox musical Return to the Forbidden Planet at the West End's Cambridge Theatre, as based on Forbidden Planet and William Shakespeare's The Tempest.