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The 27th Day (1957)

The 27th Day (1957)

Science Fiction

Terror from Outer Space!

Release Date: 1957, January 7
Directors: William Asher
Countries: United States of America
Production: Romson Productions, Columbia Pictures
Cast: George Voskovec, Gene Barry, Ralph Clanton, David Bond, Philip Van Zandt, Charles Bennett, Paul Frees, Monty Ash, Paul Birch, Friedrich von Ledebur, Stefan Schnabel, Mel Welles

Overview:

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...

Keywords:

alien flying saucer decision alien weapon