A mission from earth arrives on Altair IV, to find out why the settlers there have stopped communicating. They find only two survivors from the mission that arrived twenty years before, Dr. Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his beautiful daughter Altaira (Anne Francis). Morbius is extremely unwelcolming and tries to get them to leave as soon as possible. He neglects to mention Alaira to them, but when Commander Abrams (Leslie Nielson) and his men meet her they become much more interested in staying! All seems to be running routinely, but then some sort of entity made of pure power energy starts to menace the ship. The crew believing that not only they but Morbius and the girl are in danger and try to pursuade Morbius to leave. Something that Morbius is reluctant to do. But where is this creature coming from? Could it be some remnent from the Krell, a vastly intelligent race of beings that previously inhabited the planet? Or is there a more menacing reason for the creatures existance.A retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, with dashes of Adam and Eve, mixed with Freudian psychoanalysis, makes for an intriguing mystery, well delivered in true 50's sci-fi style using CinemaScope and an initiative electronic soundtrack. It all adds up to a sci-fi classic and is more importantly the film that kick-started Robbie the Robots career.
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