Posted on 06/04/2022 11:01:24 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I mean that Anne didn't play the stereo typical "dumb blonde".
Been too long - this one I had to look up
The Brain Center at Whipple’s
Robby the Robot in an original Twilight Zone.
One of several appearances in that show.
When you’re twelve years old it made an impression. There was a lot of serious thought that it provoked for me as I worked through Edgar Allen Poe and others. Symbolism and background meant something to the story tellers back then. That was my introduction to the ID. It crops up very sporadically in writings. It is an interesting concept to me. When I’m bored or they run that movie I remember the story and the actors. For a B movie it is better than the crap we get now
Couldn't remember the name right off so had to look that one up too.
SPOILER ALERT
I just love it from start to finish.
Then Leslie Nielsen has her watch the planet blow up real good. 🤣
Yes I think she also starred in the Satan Bug , a film that still holds up well.
I’ve only read a few Poe - maybe 5 total
Amazing - each of them
This movie was inspiration, at least in part, for Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek series. But gene also wanted something that felt like a space western, which is one reason he brought in Deforest Kelly, who had previously starred in them.
Calling Adam Schiff. Calling Adam Schiff. You are wanted in the mind/id room immediately.
Don’t call me Robbie. Call me an advanced robot with immense creative skills.
Everybody I looked up tonight was born in September heh
John Coltrane
Earl Holliman - September 11th
Anne Francis - September 16th
Walter Pidgeon
John and Walter both 23rd different years
The tormented mind or the cornered mind can be fertile ground for terrible things to happen. I think the Forbidden Planet and Poe’s The Tell Tail Heart are perfect examples. They sure gave me something to conjure about as a kid and an adult. You can look around now and see a lot of folks can’t figure things out. We spend lots of money on schools to raise stupid. It’s really a shame. I liked Leslie Nielsen in Dracula Dead and Loving It the best. Go figure. Regards.
Leslie Nielsen almost got caught!
He was ........ Wrongfully Accused
Maury Hanigan of Real Stories of the Highway Patrol along with John Walsh
🤣🤣🤣
same here, this and Frankenstein at the local movies as a kid. The theater had a Frankenstein “monster” sitting a chair, scared me half to death.
Monster movies (including alien invasion movies) are easier to accept because they are based on an external threat. The threat in Forbidden Planet is internal, and something evil and destructive that exists within every one of us.
Pretty much all these movies reach a conclusion in which the threat is destroyed (at least until the sequel or the remake), and the viewer can enjoy the sense of relief as he leaves the theater. Not so much with Forbidden Planet, and that’s why it is so scary to those who think about what it means.
Sure, once the Krell machine is destroyed, the ability to project one’s internal evil, backed with almost limitless power, is removed. That gives some relief, but the disturbing reality is that people can always find other ways to project that evil, and given enough time, it can destroy any civilization, just as it destroyed the Krell.
If you notice, when Leslie Nielsen confronts Morbius that the monster is actually him, he says that’s why we have laws ... and religion!
Ooooh, Anne Francis 😘😜
That must have been something to see. My mother took my brother and me to the RKO Palace in Rochester, New York, to see William Castle's "House on Haunted Hill." During the scene where the skeleton comes up out of the vat of acid in the floor, the theater produced a promotional gimmick for the movie, sending a plastic skeleton on a wire, across one side of the theater to the other. I was 12 at the time, and remember it like it was yesterday. Everybody stopped watching the movie, and looked up to watch the skeleton move along the wire.
This was the theme used by the late, great Long John Nebel, a NYC midnight-to-dawn radio talk show host, who was the progenitor of Art Bell, Coast to Coast AM, and others.
Krell music from Forbidden Planet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR-MkDKWWW0&list=PLRLCwrdOigtm7KXEfoL7zJCE3EyJ0_ijV
I love that movie. One of my top favorites, from the set design to the music, actors and the Walt Disney-designed monster from the Id. Perfection!
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