The Krell: Forbidden Planet's Ancient Civilization

About This 1950's Science Fiction Cult Classic Movie

The 1956 film Forbidden Planet has become a science-fiction cult classic, serving as inspiration for, among other things, the original Star Trek series. The film, directed by Fred Wilcox, starred Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and a very young Leslie Nielsen, later of Naked Gun fame. It tells the story of a twenty-third century starship sent to the planet Altair IV to investigate the mysterious disappearance of an earlier expedition.

Upon landing the starship’s crew is met by one of the most memorable “stars” of the movie – Robby the Robot. Robby takes the crew to the home of Dr. Morbius, who along with his beautiful daughter Altaira, are the only survivors of the original expedition. Morbius eventually tells the crew about The Krell; the planet’s long extinct civilization that had a technology a million years ahead of that of mankind’s. He takes them on a tour of the Krell Machine, a fantastic and immense machine that continues to operate, even 200,000 after The Krell were extinguished in a single night. What happened to The Krell, and what might that mean for the expedition, and even the future of mankind? That’s the story of Forbidden Planet.


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The Krell: Forbidden Planet's Ancient Civilization


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