I still love “Forbidden Planet” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still” as intelligent scripts done well. Of course, the real screen writer for “Forbidden Planet” was a old-time play write, W.Shakespeare!
One thing about The Day the Earth Stood Still, (well there’s more than one but it was made in the 50’s after all), was the fact that if the Alien Race could just shut off all the Electricity, they wouldn’t need to destroy Earth to protect the other Planets.
Forgive the run on sentence. LOL
Michael Rennie (sic?) will always be the only Klatu, just as James Mason will always be the only Captain Nemo.