Leslie Nielsen (SIGNED) & Anne Francis 1956 FORBIDDEN PLANET RARE 8X10 Photo

Description: The photographs and other items, are official photographs and items that have been gathered over 40 years and are always guaranteed authentic. Just send it back for a return!!!! Guaranteed! All of the photographs listed were obtained at conventions we obtained authentic hand-signed autographs from actors on these official photographs purchased from the Authorized Users. These are AUTHENTIC AUTOGRAPHS, and acquired during SeaTrek 1995 . nice and clear, and NOT a copy or reprint.No visible signs of wear and tear. Forbidden Planet (1956) is one of the more influential, classic and ground-breaking science-fiction space-opera adventures ever made - it was the first science-fiction film in color and CinemaScope. The film, directed by Fred McLeod Wilcox (from a screenplay by Cyril Hume), marked a number of firsts: the first film to be set entirely on a foreign planet in interstellar space, arrived at via hyperspeed travel on a flying saucer moving at more than 16 times the speed of light the first Hollywood film to have an all-electronic music score the first film in which a robot had a personality (and sense of humor), was more than just a boxy 'tin-can', and was given his own onscreen credit the first high-budget sci-fi film from MGM studios, with first-class special effects the first sci-fi film with a widescreen scope aspect ratio the film that initiated many genre ingredients for future sci-fi films (and TV shows) The lavish, dazzling and colorful film joined a number of other highly important films in the genre, including alien invasion films such as The Thing (From Another World) (1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953), Them! (1954), and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). There were other lesser sci-films of the 1950s that also depicted travel into outer space, including Rocketship X-M (1950), producer George Pal's Destination Moon (1950), This Island Earth (1955), First Spaceship on Venus (1959), and The Angry Red Planet (1959). The plot depicted a space journey (of 378 days) in the year 2200 A.D. by astronauts on a flying saucer-shaped United Planets space cruiser C-57D to a distant planet-star named Altair-IV with green skies, sixteen light years from Earth. They intended to investigate the mysterious fate of a colony planted about 20 years before. Their rescue mission led by alpha male Commander Adams (Leslie Nielsen in his film debut) was designed to discover what had happened to the starship Bellerophon that crash-landed and vaporized in the earlier expedition. Upon landing, they found only three survivors: Dr. Edward Morbius (a variation on German mathematician Moebius, of strip fame) (Walter Pidgeon), his pretty and innocent virginal 19 year-old daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis) who had never seen earthlings before, and their multi-lingual robot house servant and bodyguard, Robby. During their prolonged investigation, the space explorers were told how the planet was once home to a now-extinct, advanced alien intelligence, known as the Krell, and were given a tour of their labyrinthine underground city and its themonuclear power reactors. They were repeatedly attacked by an unknown feral force (a giant, invisible creature) that ultimately could destroy all of civilization. The film's main spoiler secret was that Dr. Morbius had harnessed the superior Krell technology to increase his own intellect and telepathic powers, and that the creature was in reality a manifestation of his own projected anger (a "monster" from the Id) - mostly to protect his daughter, but originally to kill the earlier colonists who wanted to return to Earth. In the exciting conclusion, Dr. Morbius willfully confronted his own destructive power and the threat of Krell technology. Guiltily fearing human dependence on machines, he sacrificed himself by opposing his own Id, and urged programming the Krell machine to self-destruct, after allowing the surviving space crew to depart with Altaira from the 'forbidden planet'. Although set in the futuristic world of the 23rd century, the movie was an essential product of the mid-20th century American psyche. The film's major cautionary subtext was about the dangers of the time period's own Atomic Age of the 1950s, with the unleashing of the terrible destructive forces of nuclear weapons, the Bomb, and its accompanying Communist Red Scare in the McCarthy era. In the mid-1950s, scientists such as J. Robert Oppenheimer had created the atomic bomb and unleashed a dangerous technological power upon the world and caused nuclear proliferation (his famous quote: "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"). Lessons were to be learned from the film's godlike, advanced alien civilization of a race known as the Krell that once ruled the 'forbidden planet,' who had developed technology and their own intelligence to an unwise and dangerous level that ultimately brought about their extinction. They had developed a machine that gave form to their thoughts, including their sub-conscious fears and desires. The 'mad scientist' character in the film had also attained the knowledge of the Krell, realized its dangers, insisted on portioning out its dissemination to the world, and had over-reached his humanity by attempting to be god-like. This had resulted in his dark, destructive and rampaging unconscious emerging from inside himself - aided, fed and powered by the alien technology. Although the retro 1950s film was very stodgy, pretentious and slow-moving, it must have mesmerized 1950s audiences with its visually imaginative representations of interstellar space travel, a flying saucer cruiser with hyper-drive, life on another planet, the anthropomorphic robot Robby, Robby's space vehicle-Jeep, an atomic cannon, futuristic gadgetry and gobble-de-gook technology (high-energy blaster ray-guns, force-fields, a disintegrator beam disposal unit, a hologram sculpture (appearing in a "plastic educator" device), a cranium-boosting device, planetary energy wells, a long-range Klystron Transmitter, and more).

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