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...
Cast
Gene Barry
as Jonathan Clark
Valerie French
as Eve Wingate
George Voskovec
as Prof. Klaus Bechner
Azemat Janti
as Ivan Godofsky
Stefan Schnabel
as The Soviet General
Friedrich von Ledebur
as Dr. Karl Neuhaus
Ralph Clanton
as Mr Ingram
Arnold Moss
as The Alien
Monty Ash
as Soviet Prison Physician
Theo Marcuse
as Soviet Col. Gregor
Reviews
CinemaSerf
The underlying premiss of this film is quite interesting. Five people are kidnapped by a vastly superior alien race and each given a potentially toxic capsule. These capsules can only be opened upon the command of the owner, but if they ever are then mankind is doomed to eradication. The five are fr...
