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Auction History Result 3d1785 FORBIDDEN PLANET style A 1/2sh 1956 art of Robby the Robot carrying sexy Anne Francis, rare! Date Sold 10/30/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style A Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that the style A and style B half-sheets have somewhat similar images, but on the style B, Robby the Robot is full-length, and on the style A he is waist-high and close up (the style A also has more additional images around Robby than the style B). We have previously only auctioned five examples of this style A half-sheet in all our years of auctioning (we auctioned one example twice)! We are also currently auctioning a style B half-sheet in a separate auction. Note that this poster has never been machine folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were machine folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT machine folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets). Condition: very good. The poster was never folded, but it likely was slightly roughly handled while it was rolled, and it now has many faint vertical creases scattered in the top two-thirds of the poster, with some light creases scattered in the rest of the poster. It has some faint smudges and stains around the edges, with a pair of staple holes in the center of the top and bottom blank borders. There was a 1/4" tear in the middle of the right border, and someone put a small piece of tape on the back of that, and a small piece of tape on the back of an even smaller tear in the lower right border, and also a small piece of tape on the back of another extremely tiny tear in the lower left border, but no other restoration of any kind was performed to the poster. It is very fortunate that the many creases described above are truly not very noticeable at all from the front, and I would think many collectors would be quite happy to display this great poster as it is, or certainly, paperbacking would greatly minimize the light creases. But please bear the above in mind before bidding on this poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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