The 27th Day (1957)
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...
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Gene Barry
as Jonathan Clark
as Jonathan Clark
Valerie French
as Eve Wingate
as Eve Wingate
George Voskovec
as Prof. Klaus Bechner
as Prof. Klaus Bechner
Azemat Janti
as Ivan Godofsky
as Ivan Godofsky
Stefan Schnabel
as The Soviet General
as The Soviet General
Friedrich von Ledebur
as Dr. Karl Neuhaus
as Dr. Karl Neuhaus
Ralph Clanton
as Mr Ingram
as Mr Ingram
Arnold Moss
as The Alien
as The Alien
Monty Ash
as Soviet Prison Physician
as Soviet Prison Physician
Theo Marcuse
as Soviet Col. Gregor
as Soviet Col. Gregor
Paul Birch
as Admiral
as Admiral
Paul Frees
as Radio Newscaster Ward Mason
as Radio Newscaster Ward Mason
Marie Tsien
as Su Tan
as Su Tan
Charles Bennett
as Gorki
as Gorki
John Bleifer
as Spokesman
as Spokesman
Irvin Ashkenazy
as 2nd Man
as 2nd Man
David Bond
as Dr. Schmidt
as Dr. Schmidt
Philip Van Zandt
as Taxi Driver
as Taxi Driver
Mel Welles
as Russian Marshal
as Russian Marshal
Peter Norman
as Interrogator
as Interrogator
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John Mantley
Screenplay
Screenplay
Henry Freulich
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Ross Bellah
Art Direction
Art Direction
William Asher
Director
Director
Jerome Thoms
Editor
Editor
John Mantley
Novel
Novel
Frank Tuttle
Set Decoration
Set Decoration
Lewis J. Rachmil
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Ray Harryhausen
Special Effects
Special Effects
Will Sheldon
Second Unit
Second Unit
Ferrol Redd
Sound Director
Sound Director
Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Helen Ainsworth
Producer
Producer
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