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LogDog75

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14. Forbidden Planet was on TMC the other day

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 02:06 PM

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Not a bad movie, IMO, but not the best of the 50s scifi genre. What I liked about the movie is you had a number of actors who became stars or well-known lie Leslie Nelson (Airplane and The Naked Gun), Anne Frances (Honey West), Jack Kelly (Maverick), Earl Holliman (Police Woman), Richard Anderson (The Six Million Dollar Man), and James Drury (The Virginian). Walter Pidgeon was the established star of the movie.

The one 50's scifi movie I'd like to see on the big screen is The Thing From Another World. Great movie with a great cast. Watching how the characters interacted with the each other tells me the cast really worked together well. Margaret Sheridan, the female lead, did a great job. She wasn't the "/damsel in distress" but her character held her own against the male dominate characters.

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At last, I'm going to see my favorite 1950's science fiction movie on the big screen. [View all] NNadir Thursday OP

Yup, that's the one. Along with "The Day the Earth Stood Still"...my top two...big screen yippee! wcmagumba Thursday #1

Wow, my dear NNadir! Enjoy the showing! CaliforniaPeggy Thursday #2

A classic for sure.. Permanut Thursday #3

Plan 9 and Creeping Terror most certainly qualify as classics JoseBalow Yesterday #9

I Assume You Will Grace Us with a Full-on 3D Review! Please! The Roux Comes First Yesterday #4

College campus movie ? Or art-theater movie house ? eppur_se_muova Yesterday #5

It's at the Princeton Garden Theater, a non profit theater acquired from an old "for profit" theater. NNadir Yesterday #6

Sounds like a cool set-up! Reminds of the old art theater in downtown Baltimore -- the Charles (or "The Chuck"). eppur_se_muova Yesterday #8

Looks interesting, but I never go to Baltimore. The Charles was founded in 1939, the Princeton Garden in 1920. NNadir 15 hrs ago #12

Fellow sci-fi enthusiast BeneteauBum Yesterday #7

Surely you can't be serious? edbermac Yesterday #10

Stop calling me Shirley! 10 Turtle Day 21 hrs ago #11

Wonderful, CREATIVE ending sentence! some_of_us_are_sane 13 hrs ago #13

Forbidden Planet was on TMC the other day LogDog75 12 hrs ago #14

I'm not sure the acting is all that great in Forbidden Planet - it's passable for sure - but that's not why I always... NNadir 11 hrs ago #15