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.

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has made a deal to mount a new version of the 1956 science fiction classic Forbidden Planet. The film will be written by comic book and screenwriter Brian K. Vaughan, and it ...

Forbidden Planet has been my all time favorite sf movie since I was a kid way back in the 1960s. In my eyes it’s perfect the way it is and no remake is going to do much to change that.

Forbidden Planet (1956) ... Nielsen portrays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne ...

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 ...