Forbidden Planet

"How ironic that a simple scholar, with no ambition, beyond a modest measure of seclusion, should out of the clear sky, find himself besieged by an army of fellow creatures, all grimly determined to be of service."

"In the final decade of the 21st century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. By 2200 AD, they had reached the other planets of our solar system. Almost at once, there followed the discovery of hyperdrive, through which the speed of light was first attained, and later greatly surpassed. And so at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. United Planets Cruiser C-57D — now more than a year out from Earth Base, on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star, Altair."

"Im in command of 18 competitively selected super-perfect physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days. It would have served you right if he ... they ... oh go on, get out of here before I have you run out of the area under guard — and then Ill put more guards on the guards."

"Yes, a single machine, a cube 20 miles on each side."

"Alta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. And your fathers name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Its true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God."

"The fool, the meddling idiot. As though his apes brain could contain the secrets of the Krell."

"If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues."

"Guilty! Guilty! My evil self is at that door, and I have no power to stop it!"

"Would 60 gallons be sufficient?"

"Cookie: Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin. Nothin to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans."

"Doc Ostrow: Monsters! Monsters from the id!"

"Doc Ostrow: [while showing the captain a plaster cast of a monster foot print] Anywhere in the galaxy this is a nightmare."