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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...
Theatrical
Jan 7, 1957
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Romson Productions, Columbia Pictures
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Terror From Outer Space!
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A Shocking Cinematic Experience Awaits You
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Mightiest shocker the screen ever had the guts to make!
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Cast
Full credits →G
Gene Barry
Jonathan Clark
V
Valerie French
Eve Wingate
G
George Voskovec
Prof. Klaus Bechner
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Stefan Schnabel
The Soviet General
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Friedrich von Ledebur
Dr. Karl Neuhaus
R
Ralph Clanton
Mr Ingram
A
Arnold Moss
The Alien
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Monty Ash
Soviet Prison Physician
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Theo Marcuse
Soviet Col. Gregor
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Paul Birch
Admiral
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Paul Frees
Radio Newscaster Ward Mason
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Marie Tsien
Su Tan
J
John Bleifer
Spokesman
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Irvin Ashkenazy
2nd Man
D
David Bond
Dr. Schmidt
P
Philip Van Zandt
Taxi Driver
M
Mel Welles
Russian Marshal
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Peter Norman
Interrogator
