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The 27th Day is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by William Asher released in USA on 7 january 1957 with Gene Barry
The 27th Day (1957)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 7 january 1957
Length 1h15
Directed by William Asher
OriginUSA
Genres Science fiction
Rating61%
The 27th Day is a 1957 American science fiction film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Helen Ainsworth, directed by William Asher, and starring Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec, and Arnold Moss. The screenplay is by John Mantley, based on his original novel.
Synopsis
Five people, Englishwoman Evelyn Wingate, American reporter Jonathan Clark, Chinese peasant Su Tan, German physicist Klaus Bechner, and Soviet soldier Ivan Godofsky, are randomly transported to an alien spacecraft in Earth orbit. There, they are met by a humanoid referring to himself only as "The Alien" (Arnold Moss), who explains that he is the representative of a world orbiting a sun about to go Nova. Needing a new world to inhabit within the next 35 days, yet prohibited by their moral code from killing intelligent life, The Alien provides each of the five with sets of three capsules in a clear, round, hand-held case. Each capsule is capable of destroying all human life within a 3,000-mile diameter, with the expectation that humanity will use all the capsules, obliterating itself, leaving the Earth free for alien colonization. The capsules' clear containers can only be opened by the thought waves of the person to whom they were given. Once out in the open, the capsules inside can then be used by anyone, but only during the next 27 days, after which they become inert.Actors
Gene Barry
(Jonathan Clark)
Valerie French
(Eve Wingate)
Jiří Voskovec
(Prof. Klaus Bechner)
Arnold Moss
(The Alien)
Stefan Schnabel
(The Soviet General)
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