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Auction History Result 3510 FORBIDDEN PLANET '56 Robby the Robot Date Sold 5/27/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (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. Condition: good. paper loss in three corners; many tears down the left and right blank borders (repaired with tape from the back); 1 1/2" tear in top border that slightly extends into the image background; 5" "L"-shaped tear in middle of right border that extends into the green background; many creases, smudges, and pinholes around the edges of the poster. Within the image itself there are many creases and smudges within the body of Robby the Robot and in the circular inset at middle right; there are a far lesser number of creases and smudges in the rest of the image area. While this poster clearly has significant defects, a large number of them are in the blank borders and the ones within the image area are not that distracting from any distance away. But please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects, or are willing to pay to have them restored!. Note that this poster has never been folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded twice (once horizontally and once vertically) right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded copy of most half-sheets, especially from before 1970! Learn More about condition grades 
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