The 27th Day
“Terror from Outer Space!”
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
20 people
Gene Barry
Jonathan Clark
Known for
The War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds
Valerie French
Eve Wingate
Known for
Jubal
Decision at Sundown
George Voskovec
Prof. Klaus Bechner
Known for
12 Angry Men
Somewhere in Time
Azemat Janti
Ivan Godofsky
Also in
Not One Shall Die
Stefan Schnabel
The Soviet General
Known for
Firefox
Green Card
Friedrich von Ledebur
Dr. Karl Neuhaus
Known for
Sorcerer
Juliet of the Spirits
Ralph Clanton
Mr Ingram
Known for
Cyrano de Bergerac
Arnold Moss
The Alien
Known for
Viva Zapata!
Gambit
Monty Ash
Soviet Prison Physician
Also in
Blast from the Past
Only You
Theo Marcuse
Soviet Col. Gregor
Known for
The Cincinnati Kid
The Glass Bottom Boat
Paul Birch
Admiral
Known for
Not of This Earth
The Fugitive
Paul Frees
Radio Newscaster Ward Mason
Known for
The Fantastic Four
The Secret Squirrel Show
William Asher Director · John Mantley Screenplay Mischa Bakaleinikoff Composer
United States release January 7, 1957 · Produced in United States · Production Columbia Pictures
Production
Romson Productions
Production
Columbia Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 7, 1957
Theatrical
Germany
July 31, 1958 · Theatrical
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