I first saw the 1956 sci-fi masterpiece, Forbidden Planet, on a late night “Creature Feature” when I was maybe 13 or 14 years old. With it’s eerie “electronic tonalities” score, the strange, craggy planet of Altair IV, the endlessly thrumming underground machinery a lost advanced civilization below it, and a monster from the ID, I’m sure I had the strangest nightmares that night.
As an older teen and adult, watching it countless times since, I marvel at how well much of it holds up. My god, 1956! And I’ve come to understand the innovative brilliance of the Cedric Gibbons and Arthur Lonergan sets, the Joshua Meador animations, the pioneering electronic music–so incredible ahead of its time–by Bebe and Louis Barron, and the MGM art department’s now-iconic design of Robby the Robot.
Here are a few snippets of recovered “lost” footage from the film and some deleted scenes.
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