The 27th Day

Synopsis

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...

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Cast

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  Gene Barry
  Jonathan Clark

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  Valerie French
  Eve Wingate

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  George Voskovec
  Prof. Klaus Bechner

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  Azemat Janti
  Ivan Godofsky

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  Stefan Schnabel
  The Soviet General

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  Friedrich von Ledebur
  Dr. Karl Neuhaus

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  Ralph Clanton
  Mr Ingram

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  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

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  Charles Bennett
  Gorki

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  John Bleifer
  Spokesman

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  Irvin Ashkenazy
  2nd Man

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  David Bond
  Dr. Schmidt

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  Philip Van Zandt
  Taxi Driver