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Hey - great movie alert. Turner Classic Movies is showing the
1956 SF classic, Forbidden Planet tonight. For anyone who
hasn't heard of nor seen this movie, don't miss it. Not for the
great acting, of course, but for the best pre-Space Odyssey sci-fi
made. It starts Walter Pidgeon and Anne Francis, and introduces
Robbie the Robot (well before Lost in Space turned him
into a camp clown.) The movie is loosely based on Shakespeare’s
The Tempest and comes close to presenting the world of Sci
Fi as only we avid book readers know it. It’s more
accessible than Space Odyssey (with the requisite comic relief in
a young cook who everyone will recognize,) but just as deep for
it’s day. And for 1956, the FX ain’t half bad –
head and shoulders above anything else of it’s day. A case
can be made (and has been) that this movie was Gene Rodenberry’s
primary inspiration for Star Trek.
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