Film Forum

U.S., 1956
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
With Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
Music by Bebe and Louis Barron
Approx. 98 min. DCP.

It’s too bad that Leslie Nielsen’s space explorers haven’t packed 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

“Still one of the best science fiction films ever made.”
– Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin’s Family Film Guide