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Auction History Result 9r679 FORBIDDEN PLANET LC #8 '56 classic special effects image of spaceship hovering over Altair-4! Date Sold 8/20/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card #8 (LC; measures 11" x 14 1/4" [28 x 36 cm]) (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. Important Added Info: Note that this lobby card measures 11" x 14 1/4" [28 x 36 cm] (see below). Condition: good. The card had pinholes in the center of the left and right borders, and it had many vertical stains scattered throughout (it appears it might have been rolled). A talented restorer gel backed the card (meaning they backed the card onto a gel material) and they then performed restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, so that the card still exactly looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. You can see slight signs of the staining when you look close up, but otherwise, the card displays well! Note that there is an important oddity to this card. When it was gel-backed, the card was "stretched", and it now measures 14 1/4" wide. One could either leave it as it is or "correct" this by slightly trimming the left and right blank borders, but please bear this odd defect in mind before bidding on this card, because it will not fit in a standard 11" x 14" frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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