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    Movies - 0 to 9 Movies - 1950s 2 Mins Read

    27th Day, The (1957)

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    This quite extraordinary anti-communist tract masquerades as naive science fiction.

    An alien (Arnold Moss) transports five people from five different countries on Earth to his spaceship where he gives each a box of capsules capable of destroying human life within a 3,000-mile radius if used.

    The alien’s idea is to let the people of Earth destroy themselves so that his people can take over (as their own planet is dying).

    The capsules become harmless after 27 days or on the owner’s death. The rest of the film deals with what they do with their capsules in the 27 days they are given.

    The quintet includes sweet English girl Eve Wingate (Valerie French), Chinese peasant Su Tan (Maria Tsien), cynical American newspaperman Jonathan Clark (Gene Barry), kindly German scientist Professor Klaus Bechner (George Voskovec) and Russian soldier Ivan Godofsky (Azemat Janti).

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    Suicide or destruction is the only choice until the Russians decide to annihilate the western world.

    The leads are extremely well supported by actors such as Stefan Schnabel as the warmongering Russian general, Friedrich von Ledebur as the sincere Dr Neuhaus, and Paul Birch as an American admiral.

    A real Cold War curio with an equally bizarre payoff despite pedestrian direction by William Asher, who graduated to making Beach Party movies. Based on a novel by John Mantley, who also wrote the screenplay.

    Jonathan Clark
    Gene Barry
    Eve Wingate
    Valerie French
    Professor Klaus Bechner
    George Voskovec
    The Alien
    Arnold Moss
    Su Tan
    Maria Tsien (Maria McClay)
    Ivan Godofsky
    Azemat Janti
    Soviet General
    Stefan Schnabel
    Mr Ingram
    Ralph Clanton
    Dr Karl Neuhaus
    Friedrich Ledebur
    Admiral
    Paul Birch
    Gorki
    Charles Bennett
    Dr Schmidt
    David Bond
    Agent Kelly
    John Bryant
    Ward Mason
    Paul Frees
    Brakovich
    Arthur Lovejoy
    Colonel Gregor
    Theodore Marcuse
    Harry Bellows
    Don Spark
    General Zamke
    Sigfrid Tor

    Director
    William Asher

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