The Invisible Boy The Invisible Boy The Invisible Boy (aka S.O.S Spaceship) is a 1957 black and white American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Herman Hoffman, and starring Richard Eyer and Philip Abbott. It is the second film appearance of Robby the Robot, the science fiction character who "stole the show" in "Forbidden Planet" (1956), also released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. According to an implied, subtle back story in "The Invisible Boy", the robot is the same character as that in "Forbidden Planet," which is set in the 23rd century; Robby is brought back to the film's mid-20th
Forbidden Planet Forbidden Planet Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Fred M. Wilcox that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, it is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s, and a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and the plot contains certain analogues to the play. "Forbidden Planet" pioneered several aspects of science fiction cinema. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in