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The 27th Day

62% | Jan 07, 1957
Science Fiction

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...

Top Billed Cast

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Gene Barry
Jonathan Clark
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Valerie French
Eve Wingate
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George Voskovec
Prof. Klaus Bechner
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Azemat Janti
Ivan Godofsky
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Stefan Schnabel
The Soviet General

Featured Crew

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Lewis J. Rachmil
Executive Producer
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Henry Freulich
Director of Photography
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Jerome Thoms
Editor
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Ross Bellah
Art Direction
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Frank Tuttle
Set Decoration
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Will Sheldon
Second Unit
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Ferrol Redd
Sound Director
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Ray Harryhausen
Special Effects
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William Asher
Director
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John Mantley
Screenplay
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John Mantley
Novel
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Helen Ainsworth
Producer

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