The 27th Day

(1957)

Science Fiction

75 minutes

Directed by William Asher

Cast:

Gene Barry as Jonathan Clark

Valerie French as Eve Wingate

George Voskovec as Prof. Klaus Bechner

Arnold Moss as The Alien

Stefan Schnabel as The Soviet General

Ralph Clanton as Mr. Ingram

Frederick Ledebur as Dr. Karl Neuhaus

Paul Birch as Admiral

Azemat Janti as Ivan Godofsky

Five different people from five nations, including the "Superpowers," USA, USSR and China, are aboard an alien spaceship. Each person is given a container by an alien containing capsules. Only a mental command from the person the container is given to can open the container. They have all been given the power of life and death and can immediately catapult the capsules wherever they please, destroying human life. 

The 27th Day - Trailer