The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951

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Call Number: Blu-ray Science-Fiction Day
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.
Based on a story by Harry Bates.
Special features: Interactive theremin: create your own score and Gort command!; interactive game; commentary by director Robert Wise and Nicholas Meyer; all-new commentary by film and music historians John Morgan, Steven Smith, William Stromberg and Nick Redman; isolated score track; all-new featurettes: The mysterious, melodious theremin ; Main title live performance by Peter Pringle ; The making of The day the Earth stood still ; Decoding "Klaatu barada nikto" ' Science fiction as metaphor ; A brief history of flying saucers ; The astounding Harry Bates ; Edmund North: the man who made the Earth stand still; Race to oblivion, documentary short; Farewell to the master: a reading by Jamieson K. Price of the original Harry Bates short story; Fox movietonews (1951); trailers, interactive pressbook and still galleries.
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe.
A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the peaceful alien emissary it brings fails to earn the public's trust. When a young woman and her son befriend him, they soon realize they may be all that stands between the human race and total destruction.
Blu-ray Disc; 5.1 DTS-HD master audio, mono (English), 5.1 Dolby Digital (French, Spanish); requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Classic submitted by Chris82 on July 31, 2011, 9:36pm This was one of the great movies of its time. Its about an alien that comes to earth to warn of nuclear destruction.

the day the earth stood still submitted by alexcantu on June 16, 2012, 8:43pm You can do an interactive theremin score!!

It was fun, exciting, creepy and weird. I think it was basically as fun as cartoons, as exciting as Tarzan, as creepy as dinosaur park, and as weird as... Well its not weird but yes it's an awesome movie!!

a stranger comes to town submitted by amy on June 16, 2012, 9:09pm The original 1951 film is still one of the most interesting science fiction movies because it's one of the most honest: It's trying to send a message with serious philosophical, ethical, and political content, something that's pretty hard to pull off - especially with an untested lead actor, flying saucers, and a giant robot. It was every bit a film of the Cold War, but its message is relevant 60 years later. Bernard Herrmann's score with its spooky theremin is also classic.

Worth a watch for sci-fi fans submitted by Will O on August 26, 2020, 9:23am Army physician: Their life expectancy is a hundred and thirty.

[Army physician offers Medical Corps Major a cigarette]

Medical Corps Major: [Major takes cigarette] How does he explain that?