The Lost Race
- Podcast Episode
- 1950
YOUR RATING
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Matt Crowley
- Captain Wharton
- (voice)
Roger De Koven
- Howell
- (voice)
Joseph Julian
- Danton
- (voice)
Norman Rose
- Self - Host
- (voice)
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Featured review
A streamlined Forbidden Planet
Here's a review of this episode that I contributed anonymously to a no-longer-updated website, The OTR Plot Spot:
Did the makers of the 1956 film "Forbidden Planet" knowingly borrow from this tale? It's a very similar premise, except that the goofier aspects of the movie -- the talking robot, the virginal heroine, the Id monster, the comic relief cook -- are absent: a spaceship crew with a no-nonsense captain decelerates from faster-than-light speed to find itself on a planet seemingly haunted by a long-dead alien race that invented a device for visualizing thoughts before mysteriously committing mass suicide. This crisp, fast-moving adaptation ratchets up the tension of the original short story with a few smart changes, like adding the threat of the crew's being stranded on the planet permanently. If you found "Forbidden Planet" cheesy and boring, you might prefer this.
Did the makers of the 1956 film "Forbidden Planet" knowingly borrow from this tale? It's a very similar premise, except that the goofier aspects of the movie -- the talking robot, the virginal heroine, the Id monster, the comic relief cook -- are absent: a spaceship crew with a no-nonsense captain decelerates from faster-than-light speed to find itself on a planet seemingly haunted by a long-dead alien race that invented a device for visualizing thoughts before mysteriously committing mass suicide. This crisp, fast-moving adaptation ratchets up the tension of the original short story with a few smart changes, like adding the threat of the crew's being stranded on the planet permanently. If you found "Forbidden Planet" cheesy and boring, you might prefer this.
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- mikeleblanc-10665
- Mar 8, 2022
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