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Forbidden Planet
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #964
- IMDb #1136
- Google retired #520
- Rotten Tomatoes #754
- Letterboxd #1764
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #811
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1148
- Metacritic Critics #710
- Criticker #827
- Kinopoisk #1982
- AlloCiné #1535
- Trakt #1625
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A starship crew arrives on the distant planet Altair IV to investigate the fate of a colony sent years earlier. They find only two survivors: a scientist and his daughter. The scientist warns them of a invisible, monstrous force that stalks the planet, a force that becomes increasingly hostile toward the new arrivals and is somehow connected to the secrets of a vanished ancient civilization.
Details
- Director
- Fred M. Wilcox
- Writers
- Allen Adler, Cyril Hume, Irving Block
- Based on
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Released
- 23 March 1956
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $1.9M
- Box office
- $3.2M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →0 wins from 3 nominations across 1 ceremony
| 29th Academy Awards 1957 | Best Special Effects | Albert Arnold Gillespie | Nominee |
| 29th Academy Awards 1957 | Best Special Effects | Wesley C. Miller | Nominee |
| 29th Academy Awards 1957 | Best Special Effects | Irving G. Ries | Nominee |
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×| Best Special Effects | Albert Arnold Gillespie | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | Wesley C. Miller | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | Irving G. Ries | Nominee |