The 27th Day
1957 · 75 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 1,963 VOTES · DIR. William Asher
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...
Dialogue Timeline — 1,103 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 Legendas por Caradecuica
00:04:53 Your gun will not help.
00:08:22 If you destroy yourselves
00:11:35 To use the capsules, you remove the spindle.
00:16:38 How did you know where to find me?
00:19:57 The FCC's officials privately admit they are now convinced
00:22:27 It is crazy. But it might work.
00:25:07 No, sir.
00:29:37 Yeah, me, too.
00:32:14 they'd lynch us if they
00:34:34 Yes, sir.
00:37:09 Yes. Yes.
00:39:16 You don't think I like hiding, do you?
00:42:47 - Who was that just went in? - Dr.Stephen Maiser.
00:46:17 They tried to kill Professor Bechner and
00:49:49 You and you alone can save your people.
00:52:37 could not be trusted to handle these bombs
00:55:24 diameter off the east coast of South America.
00:57:26 hands of the government of the United States.
01:00:38 Don't open.
01:04:33 be able to decipher them.
01:09:52 and blanketed the world.
01:12:14 How many years may pass by
01:15:04 to tell you they're waiting to greet you among the stars.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,103
Dialogue density14.7 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line01:15:04
Production Record
DirectorWilliam Asher
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,963