Forbidden Planet Print

Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still But he told us where we stand And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear Claude Rains was the invisible man Then something went wrong for Faye Wray and King Kong They got caught in a celluloid jam Then at a deadly pace it came from outer space And this is how the message ran Science fiction (uh uh) double feature Doctor X (uh uh) will build a creature See androids fighting Brad and Janet Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet Oh oh oh oh At the late night double feature picture show I knew Leo G. Carrol was over a barrel When Tarantula took to the hills And I really got hot when I saw Janette Scott Fight a triffid that spits poison and kills Dana Andrews said Prunes gave him the runes And passing them used lots of skills But when worlds collide said George Pal to his bride 'I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills' Like a Science fiction (uh uh) double feature Doctor X (uh uh) will build a creature See androids fighting (uh uh) Brad and Janet Anne Francis stars in (uh uh) Forbidden Planet Oh oh oh oh At the late night double feature picture show I want to go oh oh To the late night double feature picture show By R.K.O oh oh To the late night double feature picture show In the back row oh oh To the late night double feature show 'Science Fiction - Double Feature' by Richard O'Brien from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' (1975) Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Fred M. Wilcox, that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, it is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s, a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the plot contains certain analogues to the play, leading many to consider it a loose adaptation. Forbidden Planet pioneered several aspects of science fiction cinema. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a faster-than-light starship of their own creation. It was also the first to be set entirely on another planet in interstellar space, far away from Earth. The Robby the Robot character is one of the first film robots that was more than just a mechanical "tin can" on legs; Robby displays a distinct personality and is an integral supporting character in the film. Outside science fiction, the film was groundbreaking as the first of any genre to use an entirely electronic musical score, courtesy of Bebe and Louis Barron. Forbidden Planet's effects team was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 29th Academy Awards. In 2013, the picture was entered into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Tony Magistrale describes it as one of the best examples of early techno-horror. Source: Wikipedia