The 27th Day (1957)
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
Writer:
John Mantley
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Gene Barry as Jonathan Clark |
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Valerie French as Eve Wingate |
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George Voskovec as Prof. Klaus Bechner |
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Azemat Janti as Ivan Godofsky |
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Stefan Schnabel as The Soviet General |
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Friedrich von Ledebur as Dr. Karl Neuhaus |
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Ralph Clanton as Mr Ingram |
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Arnold Moss as The Alien |
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Monty Ash as Soviet Prison Physician |
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Theo Marcuse as Soviet Col. Gregor |
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Paul Birch as Admiral |
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Paul Frees as Radio Newscaster Ward Mason |
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Marie Tsien as Su Tan |
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Charles Bennett as Gorki |
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John Bleifer as Spokesman |
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Irvin Ashkenazy as 2nd Man |
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David Bond as Dr. Schmidt |
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Philip Van Zandt as Taxi Driver |
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Mel Welles as Russian Marshal |
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Peter Norman as Interrogator |
| Production | Lewis J. Rachmil | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Henry Freulich | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Jerome Thoms | Editor |
| Art | Ross Bellah | Art Direction |
| Art | Frank Tuttle | Set Decoration |
| Crew | Will Sheldon | Second Unit |
| Sound | Ferrol Redd | Sound Director |
| Crew | Ray Harryhausen | Special Effects |
| Directing | William Asher | Director |
| Writing | John Mantley | Screenplay |
| Writing | John Mantley | Novel |
| Production | Helen Ainsworth | Producer |
| Sound | Mischa Bakaleinikoff | Original Music Composer |
