The Invisible Boy extra on the "Forbidden Planet" 50th Anniversary DVD released in 2006 and on the Blu-ray released in 2010. Even on the Blu-ray, the film is in standard definition. 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
Sorrows of the Forbidden City woman he loves, Cixi (Tang Ruojing) browbeats him into choosing someone else. The woman he loves is relegated to being a concubine, Imperial Concubine Zhen (Zhou Yun). 1900 This is the year when the Boxers, in the name of defending the Qing dynasty, murdered large numbers of foreigners and Chinese Christians and besieged the Foreign Legation Quarter in Beijing. "Sorrows of the Forbidden City" was released on DVD by Guangzhou Beauty Culture Communication Co., Ltd., in 2006. Sorrows of the Forbidden City Sorrows of the Forbidden City () is a Chinese film released in 1948 and directed by Zhu Shilin.