Forbidden Planet (1956)
Anne Francis: Altaira Morbius
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Quotes
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Altaira Morbius : [swimming in a pool] Come on in.
Commander Adams : I didn't bring my bathing suit.
Altaira Morbius : What's a bathing suit?
Commander Adams : [quickly turning his back] Oh, murder!
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Altaira Morbius : Where have you been? I've beamed and beamed.
Robby the Robot : Sorry, miss. I was giving myself an oil-job.
Altaira Morbius : Robby, I must have a new dress, right away.
Robby the Robot : Again?
Altaira Morbius : Oh, but this one must be different! Absolutely nothing must show - below, above or through.
Robby the Robot : Radiation-proof?
Altaira Morbius : No, just eye-proof will do.
Robby the Robot : Thick and heavy?
Altaira Morbius : Oh, no, Robby. It must be the loveliest, softest thing you've ever made for me, and fit in all the right places, with lots and lots of star sapphires.
Robby the Robot : Star sapphires take a week to crystallize properly. Would diamonds or emeralds do?
Altaira Morbius : Well, if they're large enough.
Robby the Robot : Five, ten, and fifteen carats, and on hand. I will run the dress up for you in time for breakfast. Sleep well, miss.
Altaira Morbius : Thank you, Robby. I don't care now whether I do or not!
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Robby the Robot : Morbius. Morbius!
Dr. Morbius : What?
Robby the Robot : Something is approaching from the southwest. It is now quite close.
[they run to the windows and look out, but see nothing]
Commander Adams : Could Robby be wrong?
Dr. Morbius : No. Never.
[an invisible force rips down the trees; Morbius closes the steel shutters over the windows]
Dr. Morbius : I feel sorry for you, young man.
Commander Adams : Feel sorry for your daughter, Morbius.
Altaira Morbius : It's listening.
[the monster pounds on the steel shielding, denting it]
Dr. Morbius : Alta, go into my study.
Commander Adams : You still refuse to face the truth.
Dr. Morbius : What truth?
Commander Adams : Morbius, that thing out there - it's *you*.
Dr. Morbius : You're insane. How else would you have led it here, where Alta must see you torn to pieces?
Commander Adams : You still think she's immune? She's joined herself to me, body and soul!
Altaira Morbius : Yes, and whatever comes, forever.
Dr. Morbius : Say it's a lie. Shout, let it hear you out there! Tell it you don't love this man!
Altaira Morbius : Not even if I could.
[the steel shielding begins to break]
Dr. Morbius : Stop it, Robby! Don't let it in! Kill it, Robby!
[Robby shorts out]
Commander Adams : It's no use. He knows it's your other self.
[steel shielding breaks; they run]
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Dr. Morbius : Altaira, I specifically asked you not to join us for lunch.
Altaira Morbius : Lunch is over. You didn't say anything about not coming in for coffee. Well, you didn't, did you?
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Altaira Morbius : Robby, I must have a new dress, right away.
Robby the Robot : Again?
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Dr. Morbius : The fool, the meddling idiot! As though his ape's brain could contain the secrets of the Krell!
Altaira Morbius : [shocked] Father, he's *dead*!
Dr. Morbius : He was warned, and now he's paid! Let him be buried with the other victims of human greed and folly!
Altaira Morbius : [coldly] Morbius. You wanted me to make a choice. Now you've chosen for me.
Dr. Morbius : Alta?
Altaira Morbius : [to Commander Adams] I'm ready to go with you, darling.
[she runs up the stairs]
Dr. Morbius : Altaira! No!
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Dr. Morbius : [to the Monster from the Id] Stop! No further! I deny you, I give you up!
[he struggles with the monster as Cmdr Adams and Altaira look on in horror; the energy gauges go dark]
Altaira Morbius : [running to the collapsed Morbius and cradling his head in her lap] Father! Oh, Father!
Dr. Morbius : [to Adams] Son. Turn that disk.
[Adams does so; a mechanism rises from the floor]
Dr. Morbius : The switch, throw it.
[He does so]
Dr. Morbius : In twenty-four hours... you must be a hundred million miles out in space. The Krell furnaces... chain reaction... it cannot be reversed... Alta...
[he dies]
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[Lt. Farman offers the brilliant but innocent Altaira some sugar for her coffee]
Altaira Morbius : But you keep helping me. After all, you're not Robby.
Lt. Farman : [chuckles] I wouldn't mind being Robby in certain ways. Uh, that's only in *certain* ways, of course.
Altaira Morbius : I can see that was probably very clever, but I don't seem to understand it.
Lt. Farman : There's no rush.
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Altaira Morbius : [jumping out of the pool, naked] You just stay right there. It'll only take a second for me to get dry.
Commander Adams : [nervously, as she approaches] Yes, well, I'll just, uh, I'll just turn my back here.
Altaira Morbius : Well, if that's the way you feel about it.
[seeing he's uncomfortable]
Altaira Morbius : Well, don't worry. You're not going to have to look at me anymore from now on.
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Robby the Robot : [blocking the doorway] I am monitored to admit no one at this hour.
Lt. 'Doc' Ostrow : That sounded final.
Commander Adams : Maybe if we reason with him.
[they draw their weapons]
Robby the Robot : My beams are focused on your blasters, gentlemen.
[they attempt to fire but Robby disables the blasters]
Commander Adams : Doesn't he have a built-in rule against wringing our little necks for us?
Robby the Robot : That is true, sir. Yet, I am monitored to admit no one.
[Altaira appears behind him]
Altaira Morbius : Robby! Robby, let them in.
Commander Adams : Altaira, this is your father's order, now, get out of the way!
Altaira Morbius : Be quiet. Robby, emergency cancellation Archimedes.
[Robby moves off; Cmdr Adams and Altaira embrace]
Altaira Morbius : Why are you here?
Commander Adams : We were attacked. Three more men dead, including Jerry Farmen.
