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Auction History Result 3s159 FORBIDDEN PLANET linen French commercial poster '00s Soubie art of Robby & sexy Anne Francis! Date Sold 11/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Linenbacked French Commercial Poster (made to be sold directly to the public; measures 44 3/4" x 60 3/4" [114 x 154 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. Artist: Roger Soubie Important Added Info: Note that this poster is a circa 2000s exact reproduction of the French one-panel with great Roger Soubie art from 1956, except that it has been reproduced in a slightly smaller size (44 3/4" x 60 3/4"), and it has a lesser quality of printing (it is a repro, and the original is a stone litho!). Still, it will make a great decoration on someone's wall! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The commercial poster was never folded and was in nice condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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