In this classic and much-emulated work of science fiction, a rescue mission to a distant planet discovers the two survivors of a space ship that crashed 20 years before on the Forbidden Planet.
STARRING
Walter Pidgeon
Anne Francis
Leslie Nielsen
Warren Stevens
Jack Kelly
Richard Anderson
WRITER
Cyril Hume, based on a story by Irving Block & Allen Adler
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
George J. Folsey
SOUND
Wesley C. Miller
MUSIC
Bebe Barron
Louis Barron
FILM EDITING
Ferris Webster
PRODUCTION
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
DISTRIBUTION
Park Circus
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox is an American director (1907-1964). He started as assistant director and directed his first feature film, Lassie come Home, in 1943, adapted from Eric Knight’s novel. He directed ten features between 1943 and 1960, and is famous for Forbidden Planet (1956), a hallmark in science fiction cinema.
FILMOGRAPHY
1943 : LASSIE COME HOME
1946 : COURAGE OF LASSIE
1948 : HILLS OF HOME
1949 : THE SECRET GARDEN
1954 : TENNESSES CHAMP
1956 : FORBIDDEN PLANET