Robby was exploited for The Invisible
Boy, MGM’s weak follow-up to Forbidden Planet, and teamed with
Richard Eyer, best known as the genie in Ray Harryhausen’s The 7th Voyage
of Sinbad. Middle Right: Robby, Eyer, Diane Brewster and Philip Abbott
on art director Merril Pye’s computer set, the film’s only suggestion of
production value. Bottom: producer Nicholas Nayfack and director Herman
Hoffman during location filming. Nayfack died in 1958, shortly after its
release, at the age of 49.
Frederick S. Clarke and Steve Rubin.
“Making Forbidden Planet.” Cinefantastique, vol. 8, no.s 2-3 (Spring
1979): pp. 4-67. [caption and photo on page 65].