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The 27th Day (1957)

Directed by William Asher

Science Fiction

Overview

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…

Rated NR | Length 75 minutes

Actors

Gene Barry | Valerie French | George Voskovec | Azemat Janti | Stefan Schnabel | Friedrich von Ledebur | Ralph Clanton | Arnold Moss | Monty Ash | Theo Marcuse | Paul Birch | Paul Frees | Marie Tsien | Charles Bennett | John Bleifer | Irvin Ashkenazy | David Bond | Philip Van Zandt | Mel Welles | Peter Norman

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Can’t recall where I saw this mentioned or if it was screening somewhere but I at that time I looked it up in my library network and requested it.

Figure it out; it was a DKU-TV screening last weekend:
https://twitter.com/DKUTV/status/1005241258065870848
“On the next Saturday Moonlight Matinee at 2 pm ET, a strange alien gives 5 people the power to wipe out the rest of humanity (without any magic gloves) in William Asher’s THE 27TH DAY (1965).”

Turns out it’s an extended Twilight Zone episode “if given the ultimate power to take life or save life what would you do?” A bit dry in the pacing and build up towards the conclusion but makes for a good episode of TZ if viewing from that lens.

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