Ultimatum à Terra

Título original: The 27th Day

1957
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1 h 15 min

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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaAliens take five people, give them small capsules which can kill mankind without additional damage, with the understanding they will colonize Earth only if they use the weapons.Aliens take five people, give them small capsules which can kill mankind without additional damage, with the understanding they will colonize Earth only if they use the weapons.Aliens take five people, give them small capsules which can kill mankind without additional damage, with the understanding they will colonize Earth only if they use the weapons.

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Dr. Karl Neuhaus
(as Frederick Ledebur)

Paul Birch

Admiral

Azemat Janti

Ivan Godofsky

Fred Aldrich

Russian Officer
(não creditado)

Monty Ash

Soviet Prison Physician
(não creditado)

Irvin Ashkenazy

2nd Man
(não creditado)

Charles Bennett

Gorki
(não creditado)

John Bleifer

Spokesman
(não creditado)

David Bond

Dr. Schmidt
(não creditado)

George Boyce

Diplomat
(não creditado)

Ralph Brooks

Pentagon Officer
(não creditado)

George Bruggeman

Russian Officer
(não creditado)

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This was based on a novel by John Mantley, a highly regarded writer who also wrote the screenplay. This may explain why this film is regarded as more intelligent than most low-budget science-fiction films of that period.

Erros de gravação
The alien assumes that there are only two outcomes: humans use the weapons and destroy themselves, leaving Earth open for occupation OR humans don't use the weapons, and the alien species dies out, BUT there is a third, more likely outcome: the major powers use the capsules to attack each other (either pre-emptively or in retaliation) but millions of people in South America, Africa and Australia/Oceania remain alive (the five people chosen to control access to the weapons were all from the Northern hemisphere).

Citações
Jonathan Clark: People hate because they fear, and they fear anything they don't understand, which is almost everything.

Conexões
Edited from Invasão de Discos Voadores (1956)

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Superb contemplative work of quite awesome concept.

Grossly undervalued, under-marketed and overlooked piece of Scifi. Intellectually right up there with THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and presenting in some ways many of the inter-racial and socially irresponsible foibles that human-kind finds so entrenched. Made at a time of the escalating Cold War, the film unashamedly picks its sides but hey, its an American production!

I saw the film on its initial release when I was just 12, I could hardly then lay claim to knowledge of all things political, but I KNEW a good film when I saw one. In the viewings since (and it is shown way too infrequently on cable) I have come to admire its message and inherent brilliance.

An alien civilisation whose planet is pretty much the next dead thing (WAR OF THE WORLDS, THIS ISLAND EARTH, etc) looks to speed up destruction of the human condition by giving a representative of each of the five super-powers the ability to eradicate life in totality. For the purpose, an alien drops in with a few vials of 'wipe-out' and hands them out to the chosen five before retiring to the referee's corner to watch the game.

Gene Barry, who played it so cool in WAR OF THE WORLDS is the US agent with the chiselled chin and all the right accreditation. The supporting cast are all good and with hands-on direction, about the only thing to let it down are the micro-cosmic budget-restrictions. It remains though a classic film of the genre and is deserving of a much higher profile than that it currently enjoys. Probably due for a remake about this time.