FORBIDDEN PLANET
(M.G.M.) Y Cert, PPROACHED with misgivings, Forbidden Planet is after all interesting, suspenseful and amusing-dquite intentionally so. Set well in the future when travel as fast as light is the thing, it concerns a relief expedition to the planet Altair in deep space, from which ‘an expedition of 20 years before hasn’t returned. They find one survivor (Walter Pidgeon) and his daughter (Anne Francis) and evidence of a civilisation that had far outstripped ours in technical know-how even before Man appeared on Earth. There’s also an amusing robot and a really frightening monster. This turns out to be the evil unconscious Id -whose, I'll leave you to guess, and so, effective as it is, it may have been a mistake to have it visible. Still, this is a very entertaining piece for both eye and ear, and if you’re no more scientificminded than I am you won’t be too troubled by other improbabilities that have been pointed out to me. Fred McLeod Wilcox directed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 914, 15 February 1957, Page 21
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166FORBIDDEN PLANET New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 914, 15 February 1957, Page 21
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