The 27th Day (1957)
Terror from Outer Space!
75 min
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...
- Release date
- January 7, 1957
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Gene Barry as Jonathan Clark
- Valerie French as Eve Wingate
- George Voskovec as Prof. Klaus Bechner
- Arnold Moss as The Alien
- Stefan Schnabel as The Soviet General
- Ralph Clanton as Mr. Ingram
- Friedrich von Ledebur as Dr. Karl Neuhaus
- Paul Birch as Admiral
- Azemat Janti as Ivan Godofsky
- Fred Aldrich as Russian Officer
Crew
- William Asher · Director
- John Mantley · Writer
- Helen Ainsworth · Producer
- Henry Freulich · Cinematographer
- Jerome Thoms · Editor