Director William Malone on Forbidden Planet (1956) - Ticklish Business Podcast

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Director Bill Malone, former owner of Robby the Robot, joins Kristen to go deep into space for a discussion on 1956's Forbidden Planet.

Kristen and Bill discuss the movie's production history, why Walter Pidgeon wasn't a fan, and why Robby became the de facto star. Bill also gives some great backstory on how he came to obtain Robby, and spending time on the dying MGM lot back in the 1970s.

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NOTE: Bill's video suffered some malfunctions during recording so at a certain point he does freeze. His audio remains unaffected.

Watch and Listen below

Works Referenced:

Apocalypse Then: Benefits of the Bomb in Fifties Science Fiction Films by Robert Torry

From Trauma to Paranoia: Nuclear Weapons, Science Fiction, and History by Cyndy Hendershot

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