Page One: “Forbidden Planet” (1956)

Screen play Cyril Hume, story by Irving Block and Allen Adler

A trailer for the movie:

This was one of the first movies I saw in a movie theater. Scared the bejeezus out of me (I was about five years old). The robot was clearly the inspiration for Robot on the TV series Lost in Space:

You may read the screenplay here.

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