The Day the Earth Stood Still
IMDB Rating: 8.10, 18023 votes
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Taglines
- A robot and a man . . . hold the world spellbound with new and startling powers from another planet!
- From Out Of Space... A Warning And An Ultimatum
- Strange Power From Another Planet Menaces The Earth!
- The screen has never conceived a creature like this!
- What is this invader from another planet... Can it destroy the Earth?
Storyline
A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.
Actors
| Helen Benson | Patricia Neal |
| Tom Stevens | Hugh Marlowe |
| Klaatu | Michael Rennie |
| Prof. Jacob Barnhardt | Sam Jaffe |
| Bobby Benson | Billy Gray |
| Mrs. Barley | Frances Bavier |
| Gort | Lock Martin |
| Himself | Elmer Davis |
| Himself | H.V. Kaltenborn |
| Himself | Drew Pearson |
| Himself | Gabriel Heatter |
| Army Captain | Holly Bane |
| Chief of Staff | Marshall Bradford |
| George Barley | John Brown |
| British radio MC | John Burton |
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Posted in: 1951, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Tagged: alien, alien contact, alien language, ambassador, android, anti nuclear, anti war, arlington cemetery, blackout, boarding house, broken engagement, chalkboard, christ allegory, close encounter of the third kind, cold war, death ray, diamond, elevator, escape, famous score, flashlight, flying saucer, fugitive, general, giant robot, gift, hope, hospital, house breaking, human alien, idealism, interstellar communication, lincoln memorial, mathematical equation, messenger, military, panic, peace through strength, physicist, political protest, professor, quarantine, radio news, red scare, resurrection, robot, science vs military, scientist, single mother, social commentary, spacecraft, television, theremin, time freeze, trapped in elevator, ufo, ultimatum, war widow, washington d.c., washington monument, young boy
The Day the Earth Stood Still
IMDB Rating: 8.10, 18023 votes
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- A robot and a man . . . hold the world spellbound with new and startling powers from another planet!
- From Out Of Space... A Warning And An Ultimatum
- Strange Power From Another Planet Menaces The Earth!
- The screen has never conceived a creature like this!
- What is this invader from another planet... Can it destroy the Earth?
Storyline ActorsPosted in: 1951, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Tagged: alien, alien contact, alien language, ambassador, android, anti nuclear, anti war, arlington cemetery, blackout, boarding house, broken engagement, chalkboard, christ allegory, close encounter of the third kind, cold war, death ray, diamond, elevator, escape, famous score, flashlight, flying saucer, fugitive, general, giant robot, gift, hope, hospital, house breaking, human alien, idealism, interstellar communication, lincoln memorial, mathematical equation, messenger, military, panic, peace through strength, physicist, political protest, professor, quarantine, radio news, red scare, resurrection, robot, science vs military, scientist, single mother, social commentary, spacecraft, television, theremin, time freeze, trapped in elevator, ufo, ultimatum, war widow, washington d.c., washington monument, young boy