Watch The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) Free Online

Release Date: 1951

Cast: House Peters, Jr., Patricia Neal, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin, Michael Rennie, Hugh Marlowe, Billy Gray, Sam Jaffe

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Science Fiction, Doomsday film, Cold War, Therimin music, Black-and-white

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 American science fiction film directed by Robert Wise. It was written by Edmund H. North, based on the short story "Farewell to the Master" (1940) by Harry Bates. The film stars Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe, and Hugh Marlowe. In the film, a humanoid alien visitor comes to Earth, accompanied by a powerful robot, to issue humanity with an ultimatum. An extraterrestrial flying saucer is tracked flying around the Earth until it silently lands on the President's Park Ellipse in Washington, D.C.. Klaatu (Michael Rennie) emerges, announcing that... MORE

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 American science fiction film directed by Robert Wise. It was written by Edmund H. North, based on the short story "Farewell to the Master" (1940) by Harry Bates. The film stars Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe, and Hugh Marlowe. In the film, a humanoid alien visitor comes to Earth, accompanied by a powerful robot, to issue humanity with an ultimatum. An extraterrestrial flying saucer is tracked flying around the Earth until it silently lands on the President's Park Ellipse in Washington, D.C.. Klaatu (Michael Rennie) emerges, announcing that he has come from outer space on a goodwill mission. When he takes out and opens a small device, Klaatu is shot and wounded by a nervous soldier. In response, Gort, a large humanoid robot emerges from the ship and disintegrates all of the weapons present with a ray coming from his eye slots. Klaatu orders him to stop and explains that the now destroyed object was a viewing device, a gift for the President. Klaatu is taken to an army hospital, where he is found to be physically human, but stuns the doctors with the quickness of his healing. Meanwhile the military attempts to enter Klaatu's ship, LESS