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Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama 92 min G
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From out of space...A warning and an ultimatum.
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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**What an excellent movie..** Although this movie is from 1951, not many movies made today can hold a candle to this one. It's a great story with great camera play, and great suspense and thrills as well. If you haven't seen it yet, please do so shortly, but nothing i write here can do it true justice.\ \ I was a star wars fanatic, and I couldn't stop talking about the matrix either, oh and by the way.. if you know of a door to narnia or middle-earth, i'd be interested in hearing more ha ha ha! What I'm saying is that these stories brought a refreshing realm of higher understanding into thought. The Day The Earth Stood Still is a story that does this as well.\ \ It's set on Earth and in a city. The main character has a message, and is an excellent role model, polite and patient, kind and wise. However, he is being hampered by the fear and prejudices of man. So instead, he devises his own way to deliver a message. The supporting characters who know him try to help him in his task.\ \ It's an excellent message, and you'll have to see what for yourself, but you can watch assured that The Day the Earth Stood Still is a very excellent movie!
Read the whole review on TMDBThis is probably Michael Rennie's best cinema role here as he lands his spaceship in the middle of Washington DC. Of course, the Americans panic and surround the thing with tanks and machine guns, and when he emerges looking as human as the rest of us, only clad in a silver suit, they go and shoot him! Luckily, "Klaatu" isn't a man to bear a grudge and from his hospital bed informs the powers that be that he wants a conference with world leaders. This will be a tough ask say the politicians, so he absconds from the hospital and takes up residence in the home of "Helen" (Patricia Neal) and her young son "Bobby" (an enthusiastic Billy Gray). He proves to be a bit of an enigmatic character, but he gets on with the lad and is soon using him to track down eminent scientist "Barnhardt" (Sam Jaffe) in the hope that he can convene some brains. Talk about hoping in vain? Meantime, outside his spaceship is the robot "Gort" - an enormous metallic creation that wields immense power from it's laser eye. Can "Klaatu" manage to convince mankind to listen to his message before the robot takes matters into it's own hands? This is a film that invites humanity to take a good look at itself, at it's p
Read the whole review on TMDB**An excellent sci-fi film.** This is one of the best and most influential films from the early days of sci-fi. The theme was not new, there were several films about aliens and flying saucers, but this is one of the best and most impactful. The script is simple: the atomic arms race was threatening the world with yet another war and the hypothetical insertion of nuclear weapons into rockets led to an alien species fearing for their own safety, as they had learned to live without weapons and in peace. So, they decided to send a messenger to our planet. I find it very interesting that the script focuses on the need to maintain peace, hardly acquired (the film is from 1951, six years after the end of the Second World War) and already under threat from growing rivalries. Nuclear weapons were new, but already capable of inspiring fear on both sides and the script fits on top of all this, taking advantage of a trend around aliens and the hypothesis of extraterrestrial life to create a more technologically advanced civilization. and morally, and from which we can learn. Robert Wise was a director who was growing and asserting himself. Here, he directed the film with great skill, giving us
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