Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet (1956)

5 corrected entries

(2 votes)

Corrected entry: While Adams is wearing the plastic educator machine's sensors on his forehead, he reaches for the creation lever. Morbius stops him and the sensors are suddenly retracted from his head.

Phoenix

Correction: Morbius moves the unit away as he stops the commander from using the intelligence booster. For this reason, in the next shot it appears retracted.

Noman

Corrected entry: Just before his death, Dr. Morbius tells Cmdr. Adams that they must be 100 million miles away in 24 hours to be safe. By my calculations, they'd have to travel at 4,166,666 MPH to get that far away in the time allowed. Kinda makes light speed seem like child's play.

Correction: Well, while your calculations are entirely reasonable, your knowledge appears to be somewhat lacking. That's less than one percent of the speed of light, which tops out at a remarkable 671 million miles per hour.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: Robby insists that the crew wear seatbelts when they get on the transport for the first time, but when they arrive at Morbius' dwelling, none of them are wearing seat belts.

Phoenix

Correction: When they arrive at the residence, you can see them unbuckle their seatbelts, except for the middle passenger that had no seat.

Corrected entry: When Commander Addams is asked to fire his baster at the Krell lab door, he notices that the spot he shot at isn't even warm. If it drinks up energy that rapidly "like a sponge" as Morbius puts it, the commander's hand would have gotten instant frostbite as his body heat would have been absorbed as well.

Correction: This is just silly. It's a fictional material on another planet. There is no way to know how it behaves.

Corrected entry: When the id monster is melting the protective door and parts of the molten door starts to fall to the floor, you can see a person through the resulting holes who is moving around and presumably pushing parts of the door to make them fall through. This happens about 5-10 minutes from the end of the film.

Correction: I have watched this scene several times and at no point is a person visible through the hole.

Continuity mistake: During the alien's assault on the ship, one crewman is seen near the spaceship's stairs firing a weapon. However, the weapon is pointed at a forty-five to sixty degree angle - at this angle, he would hit the bottom of the ship, not the alien that is much farther out.

Phoenix

More mistakes in Forbidden Planet

Lt. 'Doc' Ostrow: The total potential here must be nothing less than astronomical.
Dr. Morbius: Nothing less. The number 10 raised almost literally to the power of infinity.

More quotes from Forbidden Planet

Trivia: Robby the Robot currently resides in the private collection of director William Malone.

hifijohn

More trivia for Forbidden Planet

Question: Can someone explain how all the special effects were done, such as the electronic blasters rays, and the sound effects? As the film was from 1956 there were no electronic keyboards then and the sounds are very futuristic.

Answer: Many of the sound effects use an electictronic instrument called a theremin which was invented in 1919. You may hear it used more musically in The Beach Boys song "Good Vibrations." The visual effects would have been animated composites as used in Star Wars and Ghostbusters.

Myridon

More questions & answers from Forbidden Planet

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.