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Forbidden Planet Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon/Harry Monty) Effects Costume

Currency:USD Category:Memorabilia / Movie - Memorabilia Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD
Forbidden Planet Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon/Harry Monty) Effects Costume
Forbidden Planet's (1956) sophistication (based in part on Shakespeare's "The Tempest"), ground-breaking special effects, intelligence, not to mention Robby The Robot, and the debut of the "Theremin", whose sound instantly became part of our collective vocabulary for anything "other worldly" makes it the granddaddy of Sci-Fi features. The movie was the inspiration for Roddenberry's "Star Trek", to Kubrick's "2001", to, of course Lucas' "Star Wars". These are a rare and unusual piece of "Forbidden Planet" memorabilia. They are the "effects" screen worn pants of Dr. Morbius' (Walter Pidgeon) "downsized" and worn by the famous midget actor, Harry Monty, doubling Pidgeon, in the iconic sequence where Dr. Morbius walks through his Krell Lab, and we see the full massive room in an over-head shot. In the days before computers, this was achieved by having midgets wearing scaled down duplicate costumes of the stars filmed overhead on a soundstage to create a "forced perspective", as they walked down the middle of the set, and then the entire lab was created as a matte painting. A truly one-of-a-kind historic costume from the movie that opened up the Sci-Fi genre for every generation to come. Monty went on to work in dozens of classic productions, including "Invaders from Mars", "The Court Jester", "How The West Was Won", "Our Man Flint", "Lost in Space" (TV Series), "Planet of the Apes", and "Lord of the Rings". These have the original MGM tag with Harry Monty written in (actually spelling "Monti" in the tag)