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FORBIDDEN PLANET
April 24, 2015  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This final week of Friday night special-effects movies begins with the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, a take on Shakespeare’s The Tempest that features not only Walter Pidgeon as a scientist on a remote planet, and a young Leslie Nielsen as his astronaut visitor, but Anne Francis as the scientist’s daughter and Robby the Robot as one of his other memorable creations. And following this film are three you might not necessarily think of when discussing cinematic special effects, but should: 1959’s North by Northwest (10 p.m. ET), the same year’s Ben-Hur (12:30 a.m. ET), and 1962’s How the West Was Won (4:30 a.m. ET).

 
 
 
 
 
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