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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!
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Important Added Info: Note that MGM made TWO elaborate 4-page 11 1/2" x 17" heralds, each printed on newsprint. One has a great cover image of Robby the Robot (with "THIS IS THE ROBOT!" and more text about him. The inside of that herald is a great 2-page 2-color montage of images from the movie. The back was left blank for theater information (the herald with this pressbook has information about ordering the herald printed at the bottom of the back). The other herald is a wacky "coloring contest" herald, which was designed to bring in lots of kids to this movie. The cover is an image of Robby holding Anne Francis, and it is out of a coloring book and designed to be colored. The interior two pages are the same as the regular herald. The back cover is printed with ordering information at the bottom, but above it is information on what to do with these special heralds (the theaters should "give them out... in your lobby, at your schools, in your merchant's stores") and they say you should hold a contest with "prizes to the youngsters who do the best coloring job" on the cover! Both of these heralds are rare, and they are even more rare to find in good condition (and it is rare to find the coloring contest one that has not been colored in). Note that when studios would prepare pressbooks they would often include a sample of the herald. Most often, the herald is no longer still with the pressbook. Sometimes, the herald by itself will sell for almost as much as the rest of the entire pressbook! This pressbook contains the original herald that was included with it, and it is pictured next to the pressbook below. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut!

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