
The 27th Day
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...
Top Billed Cast

Gene Barry
Jonathan Clark

Valerie French
Eve Wingate

George Voskovec
Prof. Klaus Bechner

Azemat Janti
Ivan Godofsky

Stefan Schnabel
The Soviet General
Featured Crew
Ross Bellah
Art Direction
John Mantley
Screenplay

William Asher
Director
Ferrol Redd
Sound Director

Ray Harryhausen
Special Effects
Henry Freulich
Director of Photography
John Mantley
Novel
Lewis J. Rachmil
Executive Producer
Frank Tuttle
Set Decoration
Jerome Thoms
Editor
Will Sheldon
Second Unit

Helen Ainsworth
Producer