One of the Best Science Fiction Movies Ever Made Forbidden Planet, one of the best classic movies of the science fiction genre, is a film made in 1956 that pays direct homage to William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Starring Walter Pidgeon as Doctor Morbius (the Prospero character in Tempest) and Anne Francis as his daughter, Planet examines how a paradise-like existence on the distant planet Altair-4 may not...