Posted on 05/02/2010 1:35:46 PM PDT by EveningStar
The 27th Day is a 1957 Cold War science fiction B-movie. However, don’t let the B-movie label turn you off. I think it’s quite good. It features an intelligent script and good acting.
It's difficult to find it on Region 1 DVD. However, it has recently been uploaded to YouTube. I don’t know how long it will be there before it gets yanked, so you may wish to download it.
The screenplay is by John Mantley, who adapted it from his novel.
It stars Gene Barry.
The actor with the great voice who plays the alien is Arnold Moss. He played Kodos the Executioner in the Star Trek: TOS episode, The Conscience of the King. Another good voice actor, Paul Frees, makes a brief appearance as the American TV newscaster. This is a rare onscreen role for him. He voiced the unseen John Beresford Tipton, in the 1955-1960 TV series, The Millionaire.
The movie been uploaded to YouTube in eight parts. It runs about 75 minutes:
IMDb entry (contains spoilers)
Wikipedia entry (contains spoilers)
The synopsis, adapted from IMDb:
Five individuals from the USA, the USSR, Red China, England, and West Germany, suddenly find themselves on an alien spacecraft. An alien gives each a container holding capsules. No power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given. Each person has been provided with the power of life and death. Any of these individuals has the capability to instantaneously launch the capsules to whatever coordinates he/she chooses, and each capsule will then eradicate all human life within a 1,500-mile radius of its designated location.
In that case, target would be Mecca. :’) And to make it ironic (and more true to life), one of the Earthlings would be an Iranian mullah, who would ALSO select Mecca...
Watch it again.
That was only after professor Klaus Bechner reprogramed them. [Comment obscured, to avoid spoiling it for everyone else. Highlight the blank area to read.]
Was he responsible for picking the Darrens? If so, he could have done better. Maybe he didn’t want any heteros near his wife.
Please don't be ridiculous.
That is an odd response.
In that case, I'd aim one at DC when Congress was in session.
I don’t think I’ve seen this particular movie. The aliens using humans to destroy their own planet seems typically Liberal.
I saw this remake was coming in 2012.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455856/synopsis
But to them we are the evil ones.....
I guess it all depends on how that “evil intent” is determined, what mechanism is used to determine that which is “evil”. An advanced alien civilization just might have an entirely different set of morals than we do!
Yeah and what if their whole planet is like our liberal democrat party? Meaning what if their whole country operates like a criminal enterprise.... a Soprano’s type of society.....
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