In 1956, MGM released a science fiction film that most audiences took as a clever updating of Shakespeare’s *The Tempest*—a story about a brilliant castaway, his innocent daughter, and the sailors who disturb their isolation. The film was *Forbidden Planet*, and it starred Walter Pidgeon as Dr. Morbius, a philologist who had unlocked the secrets of an e…
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