The 27th Day

The 27th Day

75 mins | Science Fiction | Jan. 7, 1957

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...

The 27th Day

75 mins | Science Fiction | Jan. 7, 1957

The 27th Day
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...
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Columbia Pictures, Romson Productions, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment
Original title The 27th Day
Directors William Asher
Writers John Mantley

Cast

Gene Barry

as Jonathan Clark

Valerie French

as Eve Wingate

George Voskovec

as Prof. Klaus Bechner

Azemat Janti

as Ivan Godofsky

Stefan Schnabel

as The Soviet General

Friedrich von Ledebur

as Dr. Karl Neuhaus

Ralph Clanton

as Mr Ingram

Arnold Moss

as The Alien

Monty Ash

as Soviet Prison Physician

Theo Marcuse

as Soviet Col. Gregor

Paul Birch

as Admiral

Paul Frees

as Radio Newscaster Ward Mason

Marie Tsien

as Su Tan

Charles Bennett

as Gorki

John Bleifer

as Spokesman

Irvin Ashkenazy

as 2nd Man