Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST is transformed in this landmark science-fiction film. Spacemen travel to a planet ruled by Dr. Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), who has built a kingdom with his daughter and obedient robot Robby. The good doctor is plagued by his mad quest for knowledge through his "brain booster" machine, and by Freudian "monsters from the id" as his daughter discovers other men and learns to kiss.

Color by Eastmancolor. Shot in CinemaScope.

"Electronic tonalities" by Louis and Bebe Barron.

Joshua Meador, who worked on the special effects team, was loaned to MGM by Walt Disney Productions.

The story is loosely based on Shakespeare's classic play "The Tempest."

Rated BBFC U by the British Board of Film Censors.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Disc 2:
Widescreen - 2.39
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono 1.0 - French
Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Bonus Footage: Deleted Scenes, Lost Footage
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Featurette:
1. "Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us"
2. "Amazing!: Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet"
3. "Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon"

Distributor Notes: Forbidden Planet: 50th Anniversary Edition (Dbl DVD)

A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair offers evidence of an advanced civilization. But among Altair-4's many wonders, none is greater or more deadly than the human mind. Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis)...and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.

Source: Warner Home Video

Walter Pidgeon: Canadian actor, MADAME CURIE, MRS. MINIVER
Anne Francis: Actress, HONEY WEST
Leslie Nielsen: Actor, AIRPLANE!
Warren Stevens: American Actor
Earl Holliman: American Actor
Jack Kelly: American Actor/"Bart Maverick"
Richard Anderson: American Film and Television Actor, SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
George D. Wallace: B-Movie Actor
James Drury: TV Actor/"Virginian"
Harry Harvey: Character actor, KING OF THE SIERRAS/FORBIDDEN PLANET
Bob Dix: 
Jimmie Thompson: 

Fred M. Wilcox: American Director

Nicholas Nayfack: 

Cyril Hume: Screenwriter

Bebe Barron: 
Louis Barron: 

George Folsey: Editor, PLEDGE THIS! (2006)
Ferris Webster: 

"...Sci-fi classic....[Nielsen does] a man's-gotta-do-what-a-man's-gotta-do..." -- Rating: A-
"[A]n irresistible blend of the sublime and the silly....[With] magnificent galazy scapes...[and[ colorful futuristic interiors..."
5 stars out of 5 -- "FORBIDDEN PLANET is a feast for the eyes....This definitive Science Fiction movie has really never looked better..."
"Filmed in CinemaScope and color and given a lofty sci-fi budget for its day....[A] perennially popular outer space variation on Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST..."
"Over 50 years on, FORBIDDEN PLANET still looks like the future....An oddity that would change the face of science-fiction on film."