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Forbidden Planet (1956)
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johnnybear
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 2:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Guy Henry? Is there more than one of him?
The biggest thing in Henry's life bar none! Bigger than his acting career at that time was not only being in a Star Wars movie but also being the Peter Cushing!!!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 1:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

johnnybear wrote:
The Guy Henry? Is there more than one of him?
The biggest thing in Henry's life bar none! Bigger than his acting career at that time was not only being in a Star Wars movie but also being the Peter Cushing!!!
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It's called a typo, honey.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maurice wrote:
Not quite. The life cast of Cushing was used to build the CGI "digital makeup" face which was mapped to the Guy Henry's face. There was no physical appliance work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUIHzanm5Mk

Okay, I was going on what was announced before the film was released. They reported that Lea was CGI over an actress that had a slight resemblance to Carrie Fisher. Tarkin was an actor that has a resemblance to Peter Cushing with makeup appliances taken from a life mask that was made for "Top Secret", with CGI smoothing the makeup out.

I don't know if that didn't work out, or if whomever wrote the article was mistaken. I really need to look and see what the actors look like in real life.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Krel wrote:
Maurice wrote:
Not quite. The life cast of Cushing was used to build the CGI "digital makeup" face which was mapped to the Guy Henry's face. There was no physical appliance work.

https://www.youtube.comwatch?v=OUIHzanm5Mk

Okay, I was going on what was announced before the film was released. They reported that Lea was CGI over an actress that had a slight resemblance to Carrie Fisher. Tarkin was an actor that has a resemblance to Peter Cushing with makeup appliances taken from a life mask that was made for "Top Secret", with CGI smoothing the makeup out.

I don't know if that didn't work out, or if whomever wrote the article was mistaken. I really need to look and see what the actors look like in real life.

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The video I linked to show you the Tarkin actor.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here are the various concepts of when Morbius confronts then sees (only he and the audience) his 'mindless primitive' Id 'beast':

















A. Arnold "Buddy" Gillespie (who took care of George and Tanner, the 'Leo the Lion' of those days [Tanner is the one with the Mohawk-style mane]) had his own version of Morbius' final confrontation:





These are a test of the "M-G-M 'LEO" EMERGENCY WARNING SYSTEM:





(I sire hopes this works! If it doesn't I'll edit this post and remove one or both.)

A plot for a planned scene showing the Id's approach to the C-57-D as it slips past crewmen Grey & Strong to Kill Quinn:



"Buddy's SFX budget sheet:



Popular Mechanics even had an article rgat talked about the best 100 sci-fi movies:


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

FSJ (Forest J. Ackerman) started the first APA (Amateur Press Association) AFPA [American Fan Press of America] in 1934 and published and published for many years EtherLIne. Because of writer David Duncan (The Time Machine 1960) for a convention report for OlympiCon 1956, they were given promotional material for Forbidden Planet in late 1955! Here are a few scans for what is possibly one of the earliest reviews. (From the 4Sj [alternate nick-name] collection.):













From a damaged copy of Forry's (another nick-name) magazine Vampirella that collected the entire Just Imagine Jeanie stories from Questar magazine #5 (September 1979) in one volume, A drawing of her daddy by 6-year-old Alta from the second Just Imagine Jeanie installment.e lady in the drawing is her mommy and is based upon a photo that Morbius had.:



A larger and somewhat clearer picture of the bronze rain suit:



A blurry enlargement of a cartoon of which I can't make out the words:



Can anyone make it out?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robert (Butch) Day wrote:



Can anyone make it out?


This is all I can make out so far. Underlined text I am unsure about:

BURP!

M&M
FORBID A PLANET

WATER POGEON AN' "FRANCIS" LESS NEILSON RATINGS
Introducing ROBERT THE ROBOT

[can't make out what she is thinking]

THAT THING HAS A LOT OF BALLS!

AMAZING
[can't make out]
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks! I wish I knew who the artist was and how to contact he/or she/it! (Just try saying that fast and together as one word!)
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

About the differences between CinemaScope 55 and Blue-Ray 16:9 atydy this:



Evrtything within and including the black border is CinemaScope 55™ (which Forbidden Planet and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea were filmed in). Everything within the red border but NOT including the borfer is what is on the Blue-Ray disks. Picture and info supplied by Alpha-Cine, Inc.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

These are from http://www.jackill.com/Pages/Home_Page.htm

Robby:











Robby's Transport Vehicle:











The Ship:









The Tractor:











These are as clear as I can make them. The administrator of the site is currently setting up paypal. A fan made poster of Tom Cruise as Adams, Anne Hathawat As Alta, Sean Connery as Dr, Morbius and a new version of Robby:


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I could see Sir Sean Connery as Dr. Morbius, maybe Anne Hathaway as Alta, but NEVER Tom Cruise as Commander Adams. He's way to egotistical!

While searching for non sci-fi art works I stumbled on this. No title, No listed artist. I call it Hang on Miss Alta; NOT THE EARS!!!
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R. I. P. Crewman Grey.

Robert Dix Actor In Forbidden Planet Dies at 83

A son of Oscar nominee Richard Dix of Cimarron (1931) fame, he also starred in 'B' horror movies directed by Al Adamson.

Robert Dix, the son of a big-screen icon who made his own mark in Hollywood with appearances in dozens of films, including Forbidden Planet, Forty Guns and a succession of B-grade horror movies, has died. He was 83.

Dix died Monday of respiratory failure at a hospital in Tucson, Arizona, his wife, Lynette, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Dix was the youngest son (by 10 minutes) of Richard Dix, who made the transition from the silent era to talkies, received a best actor nomination in the best picture Oscar winner Cimarron (1931) and starred in the series of Whistler film noirs at Columbia Pictures in the 1940s.

His son, a contract player at MGM, played Crewman Grey, who gets zapped by the id monster, in the groundbreaking sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet (1956).

Robert Dix later transitioned to 20th Century Fox, where he portrayed the youngest of the three heroic Bonnell brothers (Barry Sullivan and Gene Barry were the others) for director Sam Fuller in Forty Guns (1957), starring Barbara Stanwyck. And he was Frank James, the brother of an outlaw, in Young Jesse James (1960).

In 1969 alone, the handsome Dix starred as psychos in the low-budget horror films Blood Of Dracula's Castle (1969), Satan's Sadists )1969) and Five Bloody Graves (1969) — he also wrote that one — then toplined Hell's Bloody Devils (1970) and Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970).

"When you actually have to develop the inner life of a character who was nuts, that was an interesting challenge," he told author Tom Weaver. "In both cases, I recall, it came off pretty believably — I had people comment in the positive regarding it. It was a stretch for me, and in the final analysis it was good experience."

(Those five films were all directed by Al Adamson, who years later would be found murdered and buried under a hot tub in Indio, California.)

While in New Orleans doing research for a movie about Cajun customs, Dix discovered that Roger Moore, a buddy from his days at M-G-M, was there filming Live and Let Die (1973). After a night on the town, the 007 star put Dix to work in an uncredited role as an FBI agent who gets knifed and then placed in a casket during a Bourbon Street parade.

Born in Los Angeles on May 8, 1935, Dix was raised in a home in Beverly Hills and on a ranch in Malibu. As a youngster, he worked at the local market, delivering groceries to the likes of Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy Durante and Robert Cummings.

In September 1949, when he was just 14, his father, then 56, died of a heart attack. Four years later, his twin brother, Richard Dix Jr., died in a logging accident. His mother remarried, and he did not get along with his stepfather, food magnate Walter Van De Kamp (co-founder of Lawry's the Prime Rib, which opened in Beverly Hills in 1938).

Dix studied acting at the National Academy of Theater Arts in Pleasantville, New York, then, through his friend Tom Tannenbaum — the son of the mayor of Beverly Hills who had become an M-G-M exec — was signed to a seven-year deal at the studio when he was 18.

He appeared in small roles in seven 1955 films, including The Glass Slipper (1959), Interrupted Melody (1955), Love Me or Leave Me (1955) and I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955).

Dix's stay at that studio, however, was short-lived. "I did two years on the contract until television came along and wiped out all the contract players," he said in a 2010 interview. He then showed up on such TV Westerns as Gunsmoke (CBS 1955 - 1975), Death Valley Days (Syndicated 1952 - 1970), The Rifleman (ABC 1958 - 1963) and Rawhide (CBS 1959 - 1966) and, with Casey Kasem, in the biker flick Wild Wheels (1969).

For his role in Deadwood '76 (1965), Dix said he went to the Western Costume Co. in Hollywood and got the same coat and vest that his father had worn in Badlands Of Dakota (1941).

In 2016, Dix completed work on a movie from Gila Films called The Last Frankenstein (2018), which is now listed as "in postproduction" on IMDb. He had played a cop in Richard Cunha's low-budget Frankenstein's Daughter (1958).

In addition to his wife, survivors include his children Jana and Robert, two grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

A funeral service will take place this Friday (August 10, 2018) at 10:00 AM at the Russellville-Dragoon Cemetery in Cochise County, Arizona.

Sad news indeed, We'll miss him. James Drury and Earl Holliman remain the only surviving cast members.

From the archives of Edith Head by kind permission a rejected Altaira costume designed by Helen Rose for the confrontation scene in the study:



Adverts for Robby:





Digital SFX techneer Mike Glyer who would love to work with Robby:



His Id painting:



An Alternate cover and poster for the CFQ double issue:



One of the many versions of Return To The Forbidden Planet (Play by Bob Caelton 1989). This is my favorite of the various casts for obvious reasons!:



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Eadie wrote:
I could see Sir Sean Connery as Dr. Morbius, maybe Anne Hathaway as Alta, but NEVER Tom Cruise as Commander Adams. He's way to egotistical!

Cruise would be doing his own stunt work. (Wha...?)
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robert (Butch) Day wrote:

From the archives of Edith Head by kind permission a rejected Altaira costume designed by Helen Rose for the confrontation scene in the study:



That outfit would have made her look like a cross between a 1940s femme fatale and a medieval wizard.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robby says "HI!"


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