The 27th Day is a 1957 science fiction film from Columbia Pictures. It was directed by William Asher, produced by Helen Ainsworth, and the screenplay was written by John Mantley, who also wrote the original novel. The cast includes Gene Barry and Valerie French.
This was a low budget film with little action and few special effects, with the shot of the alien spacecraft being reused footage of the flying saucer from Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers. I...
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The 27th Day is a 1957 science fiction film from Columbia Pictures. It was directed by William Asher, produced by Helen Ainsworth, and the screenplay was written by John Mantley, who also wrote the original novel. The cast includes Gene Barry and Valerie French.
This was a low budget film with little action and few special effects, with the shot of the alien spacecraft being reused footage of the flying saucer from Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers. Instead the story focuses on dialogue.
Five people – Englishwoman Evelyn Wingate, American reporter Jonathan Clark, Chinese peasant Su Tan, German physicist Klaus Bechner, and Soviet soldier Ivan Godofsky – are plucked from their everyday lives and transported to a spacecraft. There they are confronted by a humanoid referring to himself only as "The Alien" Arnold Moss, who explains that he is the representative from a world orbiting a sun about to go nova. Needing a new world within the next 35 days yet prohibited by their moral code from...
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