Word: morbius
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...distant planets, there is one guy who can account for everything up to a certain point. Then when even he becomes amazed the picture ends. "I don't believe it," he mutters, "it must be some strange force, probably..."On the Forbidden Planet, this character is Walter Pidgeon (Dr. Morbius), but the reason he, too, succumbs to fantasy is an understandable one: he simply cannot believe any Freudian theory...
From the moment the Earth's inverted flying lamp-shade lands on this planet, Altair 4, and its crew have settled themselves ("Wotta place! Just another one of those new planets--no beer, no women, no pool parlor"), Dr. Morbius, a twenty-year resident, begins his fatal battle of the Super Ego versus Id. Although he professes to be a gallant humanitarian at the outset, by the end of the picture we are convinced that he is a person just like ourselves: an intelligent egomaniac who wants only one thing in life--to have his own little planet...
...down; scouts run out. The sky is green, the surrounding desert an odd shade of pink. Suddenly a big. black robot drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet's only human inhabitant, a mad scientist (Walter Pidgeon). This Dr. Morbius, sole survivor of a party of colonists sent from Earth 20 years before, greets his visitors coldly beside a lavender tree, and reluctantly asks them into his villa, a sort of ranch house with ailerons, where the robot synthesizes a snack and serves...
...commander's suspicions are aroused when Morbius discloses that all the other colonists were murdered by a telluric demon that seems to inhabit the planet. The commander is wondering whether he should arrest the scientist, when a beautiful girl (Anne Francis) walks in. She is Morbius' daughter, Altaira, and she has never seen an available male before. The captain, who has not seen a woman for more than a year, decides to give Morbius a chance and Altaira...
...night the spaceship is assaulted by an invisible monster who leaves footprints like those of a colossal tree sloth, and is completely invulnerable to any kind of atomic attack. Accused by the commander, Morbius reveals his secret: Altair was once inhabited by a race of creatures, the Krell, whose technology was a million years ahead of mankind's. They vanished mysteriously, in a single night, even as they realized their greatest achievement: a civilization without instrumentalities, force without form, spirit without substance. They became, in a word, gods. Or did they? On paper, the answer to this question would...
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