Double Feature
Forbidden Planet
A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair provides astonishing evidence of a populace a million years more advanced than Earthlings. There are many wonders on Altair-4, but none is greater or more deadly than the human mind. Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen portrays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that’s home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), the remarkable Robby…and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own. (Warner Bros)
- Director
- Fred M. Wilcox
- Writer
- Screen play by Cyril Hume based on a story by Irving Block and Allen Adler
- Starring
- Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Robby the Robot
- Year
- 1956
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 98 minutes
The Time Machine (1960)
In this adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic novel, a scientist in 1880s Victorian England builds a vehicle to transport him through time. He first travels to 1917 and the horror of World War I. Next, he sets his destination for 1940 and the start of World War II. From there he travels to a future London when he barely escapes nuclear holocaust. Finally, he sets his destination for the year 802,701 C.E., when he meets an innocent race of people living in an idyllic land … but this future may be the most dangerous of all his journeys in The Time Machine. (Warner Bros)
- Director
- George Pal
- Writer
- Screenplay by David Duncan based on the novel by H.G. Wells
- Starring
- Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore
- Year
- 1960
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 103 minutes