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Auction History Result b129 FORBIDDEN PLANET Belgian movie poster '56 Robby the Robot! Date Sold 11/1/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures 14 1/2" x 20 1/4") (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 this Belgian poster measures 14 1/2" x 20 1/4" and is folded. Condition: very good. Someone cut or ripped off 1 3/4" of the top area of the poster (it was solely the area with the theater name, and most collectors consider this a minor defect). There is paper residue in the top area above the image (from where there was a paper snipe glued onto the poster) that slightly covers the "MGM Presente" at top left. The poster was folded like a one-sheet, twice horizontally and once vertically. There are creases along the folds and creases around the edges of the poster. There is a Belgian tax stamp in the lower right of the image. Many collectors like seeing these tax stamps of the poster, because it guarantees their authenticity! Overall, the poster is in pretty nice condition, and I would think most collectors would be happy to display it as it is. After a simple linenbacking, the poster would look great, and would have little paint anywhere on it! Learn More about condition grades 
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