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Synopsis: Five individuals from five nations, including the "Superpowers," USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien spacecraft. An alien gives each a container holding capsules. No power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given. Each person has been provided with the power of life and death. Any of these individuals has the capability to instantaneously launch the capsules to whatever coordinates he/she chooses, and each capsule will then eradicate all human life within a 3,000-mile radius of its designated location.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director(s): William Asher
Production: Columbia Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.2
APPROVED
Year:
1957
75 min
94 Views


to the space vessel

from which I'm speaking.

Each of them has since

been returned to Earth

bearing with them information

of concern to

every human being on your planet.

These five people are:

Evelyn Wingate,

of Cornwall, England;

Professor Klaus Bechner,

of Germany;

Su Tan of the province

of Kunming, China;

Jonathan Clark

of Los Angeles, California;

and Private Ivan Godofsky, a soldier

from behind the Iron Curtain.

Going somewhere,

Private Godofsky?

Good evening, this is Ward Mason.

Word just in confirms that the strange

broadcast that has startled the world,

Has been heard throughout the

Iron Curtain and the satellite countries.

As to the question: was it real?

The answer must now be held to be: Yes!

In so far as can now be

determined the alien

Whoever or whatever he is

Effectively managed to blanket

every facet of the Earth's

communication facilities

For the ten minutes

in which he had his say.

This has been confirmed by the FCC.

The FCC's officials privately admit

they are now convinced

that the alien spoke from

a point

Somewhere beyond an outside

of the earth's atmosphere.

One thing is uppermost in the

minds of the millions

of people who saw and heard the alien.

Where are the five people whose

names he kept repeating?

Who do they know?

What do they know?

Meanwhile here in this

country the search for

Jonathan Clark has

been intensified.

Clark the newspaper

man disappeared

from a downtown Los

Angeles restaurant

And is assumed be in hiding.

Extra! Read all about it!

Extra!

Martians at Earth!

Read all about it!

Police search are

targeted for Jonathan Clark!

Boy, paper!

Extra.

Martians press Earth.

Extra!!

Police looking for Jonathan Clark

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Don't say anything.

I thought you'd never make it.

Neither did I. How'd you find me?

I didn't dare wire you.

I kept watching

the planes all morning.

Come on, let's go.

- Where to, mack?

- Hollywood

- Does this thing work?

- Yes

What in heaven's name is that?

- Rock'n'roll.

- Rock'n'roll?

Music, almost.

- What's the matter?

- You look different.

Of course. I'm disguised.

Oh, you shaved off your mustache.

The best I can do under the circumstances.

What are we going to do?

I wish I knew. Since one

o'clock this afternoon

I've been public

enemy number one.

- Are you sure we're right in running?

- Until I have time to think, yes.

Where do we run to?

Where do we hide?

We couldn't get out of

Los Angeles even if we tried.

3 minutes after my disappearance

They had this whole town locked up.

Where to,then?

I think I know a place.

It is crazy.

But it might work.

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John Truman Mantley (April 25, 1920 – January 14, 2003) was a Canadian theatrical actor, writer, director, screenwriter and producer of the long-running television series, Gunsmoke, and was Mary Pickford's cousin. more…

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