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Auction History Result 5y348 FORBIDDEN PLANET 1sh '56 most classic art of Robby the Robot carrying sexy Anne Francis! Date Sold 11/1/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Forbidden Planet, the classic 1956 Fred McLeod Wilcox science fiction (sci-fi) outer space robot monster thriller ("Amazing!"; "In Cinemascope and Color"; "Based on the story by Irving Block & Allen Adler"; very loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's "The Tempest"; about space men who journey to a distant planet, and they find that all the members of the original expedition have died, except for one man and his daughter, and they have discovered the secrets of a long lost civilization called "The Krell", which dwarfs anything humans have ever discovered, but there is a very dark side to those secrets that is soon revealed) starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson, Earl Holliman (as the cook, who was put in the movie for comic relief), Robby the Robot (billed as "Introducing Robby the Robot"), James Drury, and Frankie Darro (who was inside the robot suit until he was fired early in the production for showing up inebriated and almost damaging the expensive prop). Note that after Robby the Robot appeared in this movie, he had another movie role in "The Invisible Boy", and then he appeared in a slightly modified version as the robot in TV's "Lost in Space". On November 21, 2017, the original "Robby the Robot" was auctioned, and it sold for $5.375 million! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. There is a quarter-sized area of circular paper loss in the top of the "A" of "PLANET". There is a semi-circular tear in the top center of the poster which runs through the "PRES" of "PRESENTS", and someone taped it with clear tape from the back, and a single piece of tape from the front (and that tape has darkened). There are pieces of darkened tape in the borders. There is tiny paper loss at the top crossfold and a few tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss in parts of the foldlines. There are some pinholes around the edges of the poster and a few in the image. The entire poster is slightly rippled and creased. There are pieces of clear tape on the back of part of the vertical foldline between the top and middle crossfolds, where there was some separation. Obviously, this great poster has many clear defects, but it is also certainly true that a very talented restorer could not only linenback the poster and make it look great, but they could also likely do so in a way where the restoration is not very obvious. But please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored! Learn More about condition grades 
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