
Release Date
Original Release
January 7, 1957
1h 15m
The 27th Day (1957)
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...
Director

William Asher
Department: Directing
Cast

Gene Barry
Jonathan Clark

Valerie French
Eve Wingate

George Voskovec
Prof. Klaus Bechner

Azemat Janti
Ivan Godofsky

Stefan Schnabel
The Soviet General

Friedrich von Ledebur
Dr. Karl Neuhaus

Ralph Clanton
Mr Ingram

Arnold Moss
The Alien
Monty Ash
Soviet Prison Physician

Theo Marcuse
Soviet Col. Gregor
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