At the beginning of Robert Wise's 1951 sci-fi classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still," a flaying saucer lands in Washington, D.C. and a stern, masked alien named Klaatu (Michael Rennie ...

Experiments with various acids and other substances failed. Still tinkering 15 years later, he set up a pewter plate layered with photosensitive bitumen of Judea on his attic window facing a courtyard ...

"I felt like I had died on somebody else's sword on Day the Earth Stood Still. I found myself at the end of somebody else's movie," he said. "I was like, 'I'm going to make the movie that I want ...

Travelling at mind-boggling speed, a gleaming unidentified flying object zooming in from boundless deep space penetrates the Earth's atmosphere, landing smoothly in Cold War Washington ...

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The ’50s sci-fi fan was inspired by “The Day the Earth Stood Still” along with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby “Road” movies. Presented in CinemaScope, Warner Bros. Animation did the majority ...

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The alien identifies himself as Klaatu and says he has come to save the Earth. The US military and political authorities see him as a threat however and decide to use so-called intensive ...

The ’50s sci-fi fan was inspired by “The Day the Earth Stood Still” along with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby “Road” movies. Presented in CinemaScope, Warner Bros. Animation did the majority of the work, ...

An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Cold War-era Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message to the planet that Klaatu wishes to tell ...