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Forbidden Planet (1956): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.5IMDb
96%Tomatometer
80Metacritic
7.3TMDB

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 sci-fi film directed by Fred M. Wilcox. It scores 7.5 on IMDb, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 80 on Metacritic, 7.3 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 5 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 11 of 87 films from 1956 in our catalog and number 93 of 988 sci-fi films.

Billed cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Earl Holliman.

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