Yes, it is based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. Morbius is Prospero Altaira is Miranda The "Monster from the Id" is Caliban It was notable for a number of other reasons: 1) the first use in a movie of the newly created precursor to the Moog synthesiser. It's a pretty radical score for 1956. 2) it established character elements used in most subsequent space travel sci-fi movies and TV shows that followed, e.g Star Trek - a) a close knit bridge crew of 4 characters with distinct personality traits. b) the "loveable" robot who wants to be human or is nearly human. c) the hand-held "communicator". d) the hand-held "phaser". - not to mention that great phrase "Monsters from the Id". - Canopus56 (Kurt) --- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Doesn't part of the theme relate to The Tempest? I thought I read that somewhere ... Anyway, I enjoyed it except where the tiger gets zapped. -- Joe
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