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Released
1956 · FILM

Forbidden Planet

A rescue team aboard the Starship C57D lands on Altair 4 to locate a missing scientific expedition, only to confront a lone survivor who warns that an unseen menace will annihilate anyone who stays.

“Earthmen on a fabulous, peril-journey into outer space!”

Directed by
Fred M Wilcox
Written by
Cyril Hume, Irving Block
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
98 min
AdventureSci-Fi

Synopsis

The Starship C57D journeys to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of the spaceship *Bellerophon*, a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. Upon arrival, they encounter the lone survivor of the expedition, who greets them with hostility and warns them of an invisible force that will destroy them if they do not immediately leave the planet.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 29

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ferris WebsterShot by George J Folsey

Box Office

1956 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$3.3M

Budget$1.9M
Worldwide gross$3.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Alarm im Weltallde
  • Planeta prohibidoes
  • Planète interditefr
  • Il pianeta proibitoit

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