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The 27th Day

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...

1957 |1h 15m |  Science Fiction

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Gene Barry

Jonathan Clark

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Valerie French

Eve Wingate

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George Voskovec

Prof. Klaus Bechner

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Azemat Janti

Ivan Godofsky

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Stefan Schnabel

The Soviet General

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Friedrich von Ledebur

Dr. Karl Neuhaus

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Ralph Clanton

Mr Ingram

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Arnold Moss

The Alien

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Theo Marcuse

Soviet Col. Gregor

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Paul Birch

Admiral

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Paul Frees

Radio Newscaster Ward Mason

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John Bleifer

Spokesman

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David Bond

Dr. Schmidt

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Philip Van Zandt

Taxi Driver

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Mel Welles

Russian Marshal

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