Film might have been rescued by a more winning portrayal of its pro-democratic forces. But Walter Pidgeon, who limns a British army colonel engaged in fulfilling the western allies’ commitment ...

The way the story goes, this brilliant admiral (Walter Pidgeon), commander of a marvelous atomic sub that resembles a smiling Moby Dick, devises a scheme to save mankind when life on earth is ...

Forbidden Planet was directed by Fred M. Wilcox and stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. The movie is a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest and is widely ...

In the realm of retro science fiction cinema, "Forbidden Planet" is unanimously considered a Hollywood classic and ranks at the top of almost any serious list of seminal outer space films.