The 27th Day

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January 7, 1957

Runtime: 1h 15m

The 27th Day
EnglishScience Fiction

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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Cast & Crew

  • 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

  • MA

    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

  • MT

    Marie Tsien

    Su Tan

  • CB

    Charles Bennett

    Gorki

  • John Bleifer

    John Bleifer

    Spokesman

  • IA

    Irvin Ashkenazy

    2nd Man

  • David Bond

    David Bond

    Dr. Schmidt

  • Philip Van Zandt

    Philip Van Zandt

    Taxi Driver

  • William Asher

    William Asher

    Director

  • JM

    John Mantley

    Screenplay

Media

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