The 27th Day
The 27th Day is a 1957 film about five individuals from five nations who suddenly find themselves on an alien spacecraft with the power to launch capsules with great destructive power.
- Directed by William Asher. Written by Robert M. Fresco, based on the novel by John Mantley.
Five people given the power to destroy nations! What will they do? What would you do? (taglines)
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Jonathan Clark
[edit]- People hate because they fear, and they fear anything they don't understand... which is almost everything.
- A lot of my convictions have begun to wear pretty thin in the last few days. For instance I had a very strong conviction that there wasn't a woman alive who could make me fall in love.
- Radiation poisoning is a pretty terrible way to die!
Eve Wingate
[edit]- Men commit a variety of crimes and they always seem to have the same excuse.
Other
[edit]- Dr. Karl Neuhaus: As soon as I heard of the ultimatum, I subjected myself to a fatal overdose of gamma radiation.
- Newscaster: The search for Jonathan Clark still goes on without success. The federal authorities are repeating their warnings: People are not to take the law into their own hands. In the past forty-eight hours, one man answering the description of Jonathan Clark has already been killed. Remember, Clark in only in contempt for refusal to obey a congressional summons to surrender to the authorities.
Dialogue
[edit]- Eve Wingate: Maybe people really aren't worth saving.
- Jonathan Clark: I don't know, a lot of them are nice.
- Eve Wingate: What in heavens name is that?
- Jonathan Clark: Rock 'n' roll.
- Eve Wingate: Rock 'n' roll?
- Jonathan Clark: Music, almost.
- Jonathan Clark: Then you're going to invade us.
- The Alien: Oh, no. No, our moral code does not permit us to invade nor to destroy any form of intelligent life. We are prepared to lend you a weapon, a weapon which will permit you to destroy yourselves without harming your planet. This weapon affects only human life. Nothing else will be harmed. It will be loaned to you for twenty-seven of the thirty-five days remaining to us. If at the end of that time, midnight of the twenty-seventh day, Greenwich Time, you've not used it, the weapon will automatically become harmless. You are under no compulsion to make use of the weapon.
Taglines
[edit]- Five people given the power to destroy nations! What will they do? What would you do?
- The 27 Most Terrifying Days in History!
- DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE 27th DAY
- Mightiest shocker the screen ever had the guts to make!
- Terror From Outer Space!
Cast
[edit]- Gene Barry — Jonathan Clark
- Valerie French — Evelyn "Eve" Wingate
- George Voskovec — Professor Klaus Bechner
- Azemat Janti — Ivan Godofsky
- Arnold Moss — The Alien
- Stefan Schnabel — The Soviet General
- Paul Frees — Ward Mason
- Maria Tsien — Su Tan
- Ralph Clanton — Mr. Ingram
- Friedrich von Ledebur — Dr. Karl Neuhaus
- Theo Marcuse — Col. Gregor
- Paul Birch — The Admiral
- Emil Sitka — The Newsboy
External links
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- The 27th Day quotes at the Internet Movie Database