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Product Description
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 12/02/2008 Rating: Pg13Amazon.com essential video
A hallmark of the science fiction genre as well as a wry commentary on the political climate of the 1950s, The Day the Earth Stood Still is a sci-fi movie less concerned with special effects than with a social parable. A spacecraft lands in Washington, D.C., carrying a humanoid messenger from another world (Michael Rennie) imparting a warning to the people of Earth to cease their violent behavior. But panic ensues as the messenger lands and is shot by a nervous soldier. His large robot companion destroys the Capitol as the messenger escapes the confines of the hospital. He moves in with a family as a boarder and blends into society to observe the full range of the human experience. Director Robert Wise (West Side Story) not only provides one of the most recognizable icons of the science fiction world in his depiction of the massive robot loyal to his master, but he avoids the obvious camp elements of the story to create a quiet and observant story highlighting both the good and the bad in human nature. --Robert LaneActors
- Frances Bavier
- Marshall Bradford
- John Burton
- Wheaton Chambers
- James Craven
Rating
- G (General Audience)
More Information
- Studio - 20th Century Fox
- Publisher - 20th Century Fox
- Label - 20th Century Fox
- Binding - Blu-ray
Format Information
- AC-3
- Color
- Dolby
- DTS Surround Sound
- Dubbed
- Full Screen
- Special Edition
- Subtitled
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