Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastman color and CinemaScope, it is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s, a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the plot contains certain happenings analogous to the play, leading many to consider it a loose adaptation.

Forbidden Planet pioneered several aspects of science fiction cinema. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a man-made faster-than-light starship. It was also the first to be set entirely on a planet orbiting another star, far away from Earth and the Solar System. The Robby the Robot character is one of the first film robots that was more than just a mechanical "tin can" on legs; Robby displays a distinct personality and is an integral supporting character in the film. Outside science fiction, the film was groundbreaking as the first of any genre to use an entirely electronic musical score, courtesy of Bebe and Louis Barron.

Forbidden Planet's effects team was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 29th Academy Awards. Tony Magistrale describes it as one of the best examples of early techno-horror. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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James Best of The Dukes of Hazard and James Drury of the Virginian both played crewmen in this movie. You can see them if you look closely.

this was my first scifi film i was 5 and it scared me wetless but for it,s time amazing film

With ILM's effects, this would easily be the best SiFi movie made. Story line far surpasses the Star Wars/Star Trek movies. Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Tempest" the movie is about a colony on a distant planet where all the original colonists were dead from a mysterious force with the exception of one lone scientist and his daughter. The ship and its company of men sent to check on the colony are warned away, but they land anyway and trouble starts. For a movie made over 50 years ago, it can stand with the productions of today.