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Auction History Result 2n119 FORBIDDEN PLANET movie lobby card #8 '56 fantastic image of space ship landing on Altair-4! Date Sold 10/28/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card #8 (11x14; LC; measures 11" x 14") (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. Condition: good to very good. The card had a diagonal crease in the lower left, extending through the bottom left of the image and running through the "O" of "FORBIDDEN" in the title. There were creases in the right center of the card (mostly in the sky background, but extending into the right edge of the space ship). There were creases and tiny tears in each blank corner and a 1" tear near the middle of the right border and a tiny tear in the upper right border. Some restorer flattened the card and put a tiny piece of conservation tape on the back of each corner and did slight touch up to the above border defects. Apparently, the creases in the right middle of the card occurred AFTER this slight restoration, because they have not been restored. If I owned this wonderful card (which, other than the above defects is in pretty nice condition), I would have a restorer flatten it once again, which would greatly minimize the creases in the middle right of the image, and after that small additional restoration, the card will display wonderfully (it actually displays pretty well just as it is). Learn More about condition grades 
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