Film Forum

U.S., 1956
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
With Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Robby the Robot
Approx. 98 min. DCP.

Too bad Leslie Nielsen’s space explorers aren’t packing their Freud — or The Tempest — when they discover Walter Pidgeon and daughter Anne Francis as sole survivors from a previous expedition to Altair 4 (filling in for the Bard’s remote island) — plus of course faithful retainer Robbie the Robot, the R2-D2/C-3PO of his day.

Presented with support from the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s

Reviews

“One of the most ambitious and intelligent films of its genre.”
– Leonard Maltin