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	The Day the Earth Stood Still
		The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Directed by Robert Wise.
		TDTESS was adapted from a 1940 story published in Astounding Science Fiction, a pulp magazine beloved of younger readers, but somewhat lacking in intellectual cache.
		TDTESS was a liberal movie in a paranoid era.
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	The Day the Earth Stood Still
		The Day the Earth Stood Still is certainly quintessential; a movie that helped to lay the ground works for the genre, providing many of its archetypes and conventions.
		It succeeded as an anti-nuclear allegory, and it still succeeds from an anti-war standpoint.
		Still, grain is present, and speckles do crop up, but since the film has been around for so long, you can't ask for perfection.
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	The Day the Earth Stood Still - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 science fiction film which tells the story of a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to warn its leaders not to take their conflicts into space, or they will face lethal consequences.
		Earth, he tells them, can either decide to abandon warfare and peacefully join other spacefaring nations – a peace enforced by the robot race to which Gort belongs – or be destroyed as a threat.
		Principal outdoor photography for The Day the Earth Stood Still was shot on 20th Century Fox sound stages and its studio backlot (now Century City), with a second unit shooting background plates and other scenes in Washington, D.C.: the film's stars never travelled to Washington for the making of the film.
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		Patricia Neal in "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
		The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 science fiction film which tells the story of a humanoid spaceman who comes to Earth to convince its leaders to learn how to live in peace.
		Earth, he tells them, can either decide to abandon warfare and join other spacefaring nations -- a peace ensured by a massive deterrent force, the robot race Gort belongs to -- or be destroyed as a threat.
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	The Day the Earth Stood Still
		The Day the Earth Stood Still is one of those rare films that's a science fiction masterpiece that doesn't require a ton of explosions to be enjoyable.
		People and their small minded thinking are also portrayed perfectly, reminding even modern day viewers of how society still reacts to the unknown.
		As good as The Day the Earth Stood Still is, it still isn't without some unintentional humor because of its age.
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	One of the first Hollywood films produced during the science fiction boom of the 1950's, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		One of the first Hollywood films produced during the science fiction boom of the 1950's, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) told the thoughtful and provocative story of the arrival in Washington, D.C. of a strange visitor from space and his giant robot who brought a message of peace and profitable coexistence.
		The on-air commentaries by the newsmen of the day, including Elmer Davis, Draw Pearson, H.L. Kalthenborn, and Gabriel Heatter, were later ad-libbed by the commentators themselves in order to lend an air of authenticity to the dramatic events as they were unfolding.
		She is very disillusioned because her father had told her he felt the Earth had a great deal of promise, but her mission is a clear one: the world’s leaders must comply with the demands of the confederation of planets, or be destroyed.
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	The Day the Earth Stood Still Summary
		The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), still playing in cinema revivals in the 1990s, at outdoor summer festivals, and regularly on cable channels, was at the forefront of the science fiction film explosion of the 1950s.
		In The Day the Earth Stood Still, Wise is restrained in the use of special effects (though Klaatu's flying saucer cost more than one hundred thousand dollars), maintaining their effectiveness by contrasting them with scenes showing a claustrophobic and suspicious Washington in a light we might usually associate with film noir.
		The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 science fiction film which tells the story of a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to warn its leaders not to take their conflicts into space, or they will face lethal consequences.
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	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
		The Day the Earth Stood Still appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this double-sided, single-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Earth includes a very nice package of extras, most of which came from a 1995 laserdisc release of the film.
		Earth ends with trailers for One Million Years BC and Journey to the Center of the Earth plus a Restoration Comparison.
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	the day the earth stood still movie, Michael Rennie, review, the day the earth stood still film review.
		The Day the Earth Stood Still used this masking technique as many films of it's period did.
		On one day he shuts off all means of electrical and mechanical power for the entire world for a few minutes.
		Such is the path of the group thinker which this film so eloquently speaks to in the hopes of changing their thinking in the days of fear and communist uprisings which were the 1960's.
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	Articles > The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
		He was well known for his liberal views and, after "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was released, finally fllisted for refusing to cooperate with the U.S. government's House on Un-American Activities Committee.
		This was changed to "The Day the Earth Stood Still" by Julian Blaustein, the movie's producer, because he felt it scanned better.
		In 1995 "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was added to the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being deemed "culturally, historically, or esthetically important".
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	THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
		Some are still running madly away; others, singly and in little groups, stand as though rooted, staring at the ship from a respectful distance.
		We still don't know where it came from, but I can reveal that military leaders are considering two possibilities; that it came from some unfriendly power here on earth -- or that it actually arrived from another planet.
		Still studying the flboard, Klaatu is shaking his head and clucking his tonsure as one might at the attempts of a child to solve a problem in arithmetic.
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	The Day the Earth Stood Still . Tucson Weekly . 07-11-96
		The Day the Earth Stood Still was released in 1951 when the cold war was in full swing and fear of the bomb was widespread.
		While The Day the Earth Stood Still derived its cultural resonance from the fear of the bomb and the stress of the cold war, Independence Day derives its resonance from the fear that, in these post-cold war times, there may not be anything good left to blow up.
		There's even a snippet of The Day the Earth Stood Still in Independence Day--one of the characters is watching it on TV when the bad guys invade.
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	The Day The Earth Stood Still - Synopsis - Moviefone
		All of Washington DC is thrown into a panic when an extraterrestrial spacecraft lands near the White House.
		Here the benign alien gains the confidence of a lovely widow (Patricia Neal) and her son (Billy Gray), neither of whom tumble to his other-worldly origins, and seeks out the gentleman whom Billy regards as "the smartest man in the world"--an Einstein-like scientist, Dr. Barnhardt (Sam Jaffe).
		The next day, at precisely 12 o'clock, Klaatu arranges for the world to "stand still"--he shuts down all electrical power in the world, with the exception of essentials like hospitals and planes in flight.
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	Cylon Alliance - The Day the Earth Stood Still
		The 1951 film, "The Day the Earth Stood Still", based on the Harry Bates short story "Farewell to the Master," also uses an alien to represent the uninvited communists but does so in a way to make the communists seem proper and the Americans seem foolhardy,...
		Of course, this was before the days of Battlestar Galactica and Terminator, when humanoid machines sought nothing less than the complete destruction of all mankind.
		Nevertheless, The Day the Earth Stood Still remains among the top ten science fiction classics of all time.
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		The very epitome of a cult SF classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still is more often referenced than seen, which is a pity since it remains even now one of the most thought-provoking examples of the genre.
		Although it is rarely referred to as a "Cold War" film, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" nevertheless effectively captures the nuclear anxiety and political grandstanding that characterized the early Fifties.
		It seems that now that Earth is developing atomic power, the other inhabited planets of the galaxy are concerned that the new kids on the block are not mature enough to avoid destroying everything.
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	The Day the Earth Stood Still
		Directed by Robert Wise in 1951, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is widely revered as a cautionary tale about the dangers of unregulated scientific advancements in an era of nuclear power.
		The same year that "the earth stood still," Ray Bradbury expressed the desire for space exploration and the need for fundamental changes in human nature in The Martian Chronicles.
		Still, disregarding the film's novel -- and prophetic, given the many religions that would later be formed around similar friendly aliens -- amalgamation of religion and science, Klaatu seems to lack the patience of a good messiah.
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	www.businessinafrica.net \| features \| energy oil gas The day the earth stood still
		The title is borrowed from a 1951 movie in which an alien lands and tells the people of earth they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
		Katrina and Rita are remembered fondly as mischievous zephyrs, compared with the 500mph hurricanes and tornados that slap the planet around and, depending on where you live, temperatures average between -60ºC and 70ºC, such is the tattered state of the atmosphere and its protective layers.
		Earth receives more energy from the sun in an hour than its total human population uses in a year.
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	Report on 1960s Meetings Between Earth Governments and Star Nations
		It was at this same time that [planet] Earth Being was faced with problems of destruction in the form of new [nuclear, electromagnetic, scalar, and quantum] weapons developed.
		As the Councillor also said, “Earth Being and Her safety, growth and happiness belongs not to those who are of pride and ego.
		Purpose: This outline is for the purpose of presenting to the Councillor of Earth and for Earth the Agreement between Star Nations and Humans as understood by the Star Nations.
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	THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		It's a fairly simple movie, but in my opinion it happens to be one of the greatest science fiction films ever made, providing a worthy message to viewers (especially in the turbulent times of the 1950s).
		Gort, a large and very powerful robot, emerges from the craft to save the alien, effortlessly melting tanks and artillery with a power beam fired from beneath its raised visor.
		is truly a classic that has stood (no pun intended) the test of time.
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	"The Day The Earth Stood Still"
		Directed by Robert Wise, "The Day The Earth Stood Still" is one of the best SF films to come out of the fifties in terms of it's intelligent plotting, top notch acting and tight direction.
		Based on a short story, "Farewell To The Master" by Harry Bates, it encapsuates the time period perfectly and manages to be both an SF thriller and a brilliant study of paranoic behavour.
		He represents an integalactic community who are concerned that the Earth is developing weapons and technology which could be a threat to the rest of the galaxy.
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	The Day the Earth Stood Still
		In The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, US), Earth is visited by extraterrestrials, but is not attacked or immediately threatened.
		Instead, the benevolent visitors have come to warn humans about the problems with Earth's society, and the effects that Earth's actions have on the rest of the universe.
		Robots as police are seen again in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Day the Earth Stood Still: Fox Studio Classics
		As one of the few science fiction movies that aspires to be more than juvenile junk food, The Day the Earth Stood Still arrived right in between Things to Come fifteen years before and 2001: A Space Odyssey seventeen years later.
		Contrasting the presumed politics-free rationalism of Science with the bull-in-a-china-shop Military became a trope in science fiction films, and The Day the Earth Stood Still raised it to at least the height of Gort's death-ray visor.
		The Day the Earth Stood Still remains one of the few spaceships-and-aliens features determined to be about something bigger than just itself.
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	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
		On the commentary track for his landmark science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Stil (1951), Wise tells interviewer Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time) that this Atomic Age parable reflects both his anti-militarist stance and his lifelong belief in UFOs.
		Based on Harry Bates' short story "Farewell to the Master," The Day the Earth Stood Still is often seen as a religious allegory, with Klaatu as the Christ-like figure.
		While The Day the Earth Stood Still is strikingly somber and literate, at least by the drive-in standards of most '50s-era sci-fi flicks, it's also a good, old-fashioned popcorn film that's greatly enhanced by Bernard Herrmann's classic theremin score.
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	Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews
		The Day the Earth Stood Still won a Golden Globe award in 1951, albeit as the "best film promoting international understanding." The movie is essentially an anti-nuclear war message swathed in genre trappings.
		Even if the script is largely padding for Klaatu's climactic speech, The Day the Earth Stood Still soars on its performances, Robert Wise's direction and Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack (which invented the elements that would become SF cliches).
		The Day the Earth Stood Still has been seen as a political parable (which this disc makes clear the creators intended) and as a religious allegory (which it also makes clear surprised them).
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	Portland State \| Events \| Film: The Day the Earth Stood Still
		The film soberly depicts the arrival of an alien dignitary, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who has come to earth with his deadly robot, Gort (Lock Martin), to deliver the message that earthlings must stop warring among themselves--or else.
		After being shot at by ignorant, panicky military guards, Klaatu is brought to a Washington, D.C., hospital, where he begs a sympathetic but frank Major White (Robert Osterloh) to gather all the world’s leaders so he can tell them more specifically what he has come 250 million miles to warn them about.
		Made during the cold war--when Americans were obsessed with the destructive capabilities of the atomic bomb--THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, thanks to its beautiful pacing, excellent dialogue, and haunting score by Bernard Herrmann, is still a treat for contemporary audiences.
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