I chanced upon this one,
the film Forbidden Planet,
great fun and it has aged quite well considering it was released in 1956,
we had watched it a couple of times before over the years, but I remember it for a couple of things, firstly the musical accompaniment, the sound that a theremin made, gave the film a real out of this world sound, I actually made a post about the instrument,
secondly, the real 'star' of the movie, Robbie the Robot, above Earl
Holliman and Robby the Robot in the film, (Photo Credit:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/ MovieStills DB), apart from the film Robby's claim to fame is that he is the
most expensive movie prop of all time, I have just read that at a
Bonhams auction in New York City, there was a three-way bidding war for the
seven-foot-tall robot. The winner eventually paid $5,375,000 for Robby, apparently the prop was still fully functional when it sold in
2017, if you have watched the film you will know that Robbie can produce diamonds, lead, sapphires and alcohol in unlimited amounts, I guess that is why the bidding went so high!
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