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Auction History Result Lot #: v122 FORBIDDEN PLANET WC '56 classic Robby the Robot!  Date Sold 12/17/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 9 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Theatrical Window Card Movie Poster (measures 14" x 22") (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 to very good. There is a theater name and show times neatly handwritten in the top of the window card. The window card was folded over near the bottom of the blank area, and there are pinholes above and below this foldline (but fortunately, they do not enter the image at all). There is a foldline across the center of the card running through the robot's head and the very top edge of Francis' hair. There are pinholes in all four corners. There is a 3" diagonal crease starting near the middle of the left border, running down through Francis' legs. There are a few scuffs in the robot's waist and legs. There is a small area of surface paper loss in the upper left blank border (where tape was removed), and there a tape stain in the bottom left corner (which is slightly "sticky"). The poster is in better condition than the above makes it sound! I would think many collectors could display this card on their wall just as it is, as its defects are not very distracting. It is, of course, also true that a talented restorer could paperback this card and repair the defects detailed above, after which the card would look great, and there would be little paint restoration anywhere in the image! Learn More about condition grades 
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