The 27th Day (1957)

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Released:
1957-01-07

Overview:
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...

Director:
William Asher

Runtime:
1h 15min

Genre:
Science Fiction

  • Cast:
  • Gene Barry
    as
    Jonathan Clark
  • Valerie French
    as
    Eve Wingate
  • George Voskovec
    as
    Prof. Klaus Bechner
  • Azemat Janti
    as
    Ivan Godofsky
  • Stefan Schnabel
    as
    The Soviet General