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The 27th Day

The 27th Day

Terror from Outer Space!

1957•1h 15m•6.2/10
Science Fiction

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6.2/10(35)

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...

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Production

Romson Productions, Columbia Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Gene Barry

Gene Barry

Jonathan Clark

Valerie French

Valerie French

Eve Wingate

George Voskovec

George Voskovec

Prof. Klaus Bechner

Azemat Janti

Azemat Janti

Ivan Godofsky

Stefan Schnabel

Stefan Schnabel

The Soviet General

Friedrich von Ledebur

Friedrich von Ledebur

Dr. Karl Neuhaus

Ralph Clanton

Ralph Clanton

Mr Ingram

Arnold Moss

Arnold Moss

The Alien

Monty Ash

Soviet Prison Physician

Theo Marcuse

Theo Marcuse

Soviet Col. Gregor

Paul Birch

Paul Birch

Admiral

Paul Frees

Paul Frees

Radio Newscaster Ward Mason

Marie Tsien

Su Tan

Charles Bennett

Gorki

John Bleifer

John Bleifer

Spokesman

Irvin Ashkenazy

2nd Man

David Bond

David Bond

Dr. Schmidt

Philip Van Zandt

Philip Van Zandt

Taxi Driver

Mel Welles

Mel Welles

Russian Marshal

Peter Norman

Interrogator

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