The 27th Day

6.3 / 10

(32 votes)

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...

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Science Fiction

Duration:

75 minutes

Year:

1957

Director:

William Asher

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Company:

Romson Productions,

Columbia Pictures

Cast:
Gene Barry

Jonathan Clark

Valerie French

Eve Wingate

George Voskovec

Prof. Klaus Bechner

Azemat Janti

Ivan Godofsky

Stefan Schnabel

The Soviet General

Crew:
Ross Bellah

Art Direction

John Mantley

Screenplay

William Asher

Director

Ferrol Redd

Sound Director

Ray Harryhausen

Special Effects