Forbidden Planet (1956)

In the 23rd century, a spaceship from Earth arrives on the planet Altair IV to check up on the survivors of a previous settlement of colonists that arrived 20 years earlier. What they find are only two survivors: a scientist (Walter Pidgeon) and his young daughter (Anne Francis) and their robot servant. But there is something else on the planet, a destructive force whose power is unimaginable. One of the great, perhaps the greatest, and influential science fiction films of the 1950s. Using Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST as a template, Cyril Hume's screenplay is clever and inventive while the MGM art department provides a unique and imaginative world, both beguiling and frightening. While Pidgeon and the lovely Francis as well as Robby The Robot are winning presences, the space crew all appear to have walked in from an average STAR TREK episode. The unsettling all electronic score, the first of its kind for a feature film, is by Louis and Bebe Barron. With Leslie Nielsen, Earl Holliman, Jack Kelly, Warren Stevens, Richard Anderson and James Drury.