Film
The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Director
- Robert Wise
- Certificate
- U
- Running Time
- 88 mins
Not the crappy Keanu Reeves remake, but the best of the original Cold War flying saucer paranoia flicks, with a surprisingly unambiguous pacifist message. Dignified space alien Klaatu (Michael Rennie) travels half way across the universe to tell us to be nice to one another, only to be shot and wounded for his trouble by military goons. The film also introduced the immortal phrase “Klaatu barada nikto!” to the world of sci-fi cultdom.
It’s back on screen to launch the ‘shed’s The Sound of Sci-Fi April Sunday brunch season, which is in turn part of Filmic 2018, to highlight Bernard Herrmann’s early, Theremin-enhanced score.
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