The Day the Earth Stood Still
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
From the archive
When a flying saucer lands on the mall in Washington, DC, the lone occupant (Michael Rennie) is shot by a jumpy soldier. The wounded alien escapes and moves in as a boarder with an Earth family (Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Billy Gray) in order to learn more about our planet. colorized by Color Systems Technology
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. No signup, no payment and no advertising interrupts playback. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Robert Wise
- Starring
- Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Billy Gray, Sam Jaffe, Hugh Marlowe, Lock Martin, Freeman Lusk, Edith Evanson
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