The 27th Day

The 27th Day (1957)

Terror from Outer Space!

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...

Date of release
1957-01-07
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (40)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Science Fiction
Director
William Asher

Casting

  • Gene Barry — Jonathan Clark
  • Valerie French — Eve Wingate
  • George Voskovec — Prof. Klaus Bechner
  • Azemat Janti — Ivan Godofsky
  • Stefan Schnabel — The Soviet General
  • Friedrich von Ledebur — Dr. Karl Neuhaus
  • Ralph Clanton — Mr Ingram
  • Arnold Moss — The Alien
  • Monty Ash — Soviet Prison Physician
  • Theo Marcuse — Soviet Col. Gregor
  • Paul Birch — Admiral
  • Paul Frees — Radio Newscaster Ward Mason

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