The 27th Day

1957 · 75 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 1,963 VOTES · DIR. William Asher

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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...

Science Fiction1950s

Dialogue Timeline — 1,103 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:00 Legendas por Caradecuica
00:04:49 Halt, or I'll fire.
00:08:13 Your entire history is one of self-destuction.
00:11:13 Each box contains 3 capsules. They are the weapon.
00:16:22 All right. I'll take the call.
00:19:34 As to the question: was it real?
00:21:58 What are we going to do?
00:24:27 I'm waiting.
00:28:48 Hey!
00:31:38 actively speculating
00:33:33 Thank you, gentlemen.
00:36:18 give us some idea of the alien's mission.
00:38:09 I will be most grateful for your
00:40:33 - Jonathan Clark! -But it's true..
00:44:18 People are not to take the law into their own hands.
00:47:24 It's a miserable way to find out, isn't it?
00:51:18 Let's double talk! they give us a
00:53:37 that one of you might enlighten us.
00:55:58 You will be notified of a future meeting.
00:57:57 If you would only permit me to examine the capsules/
01:01:45 18 seconds
01:05:32 Dr. Neuhaus' death, the spaceship,the alien.
01:10:10 Ladies and gentlemen, here it is: the bulletin we've been waiting for.
01:12:22 But must we lose it? We have vast uninhabited areas.

Cast & Characters

Gene Barry Jonathan Clark Valerie French Eve Wingate George Voskovec Prof. Klaus Bechner Arnold Moss The Alien Stefan Schnabel The Soviet General Ralph Clanton Mr. Ingram Friedrich von Ledebur Dr. Karl Neuhaus Paul Birch Admiral Azemat Janti Ivan Godofsky Fred Aldrich Russian Officer

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,103
Dialogue density14.7 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line01:12:22

Production Record

DirectorWilliam Asher
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,963