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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The day the earth stood still [videorecording] / presented by Twentieth Century-Fox ; produced by Julian Blaustein ; directed by Robert Wise ; screenplay by Edmund H. North.

Edition:

Full frame format.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment, c2002.

Description:

1 videodisc (double-sided) (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one young woman and her son (Patricia Neal, Billy Gray) befriend him ... and soon realize that they may be all that stands between the human race and total destruction"--Container.

Target Audience Note:

Rated G.

Series:

Studio classics.

Studio classic.

Subjects:

Human-alien encounters -- Drama.

Science fiction films.

Feature films.

Closed captioning.

Other Author:

Blaustein, Julian.

Wise, Robert, 1914-2005.

North, Edmund H., 1911-1990.

Rennie, Michael.

Neal, Patricia, 1926-2010.

Marlowe, Hugh, 1911-1982.

Jaffe, Sam, 1891-1984.

Gray, Billy, 1938-

Bavier, Frances, 1902-1989.

Martin, Lock, 1916-1959.

Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975.

Tover, Leo, 1902-1964.

Sersen, Fred, 1890-1962.

Bates, Harry, 1900-1981. Farewell to the master.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Notes:

Based on the story "Farewell to the master" by Harry Bates.

Videodisc release of the 1951 motion picture.

Bonus features (not rated or closed captioned): Audio commentary by Robert Wise and Nicolas Meyer; 70-minute "Making the Earth stand still" documentary; Movietone newsreel (1951); restoration comparison; 5 still galleries; shooting script; theatrical trailer.

Music, Bernard Herrmann ; director of photography, Leo Tover ; special photographic effects, Fred Sersen.

Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin.

DVD, THX (NTSC Region 1).

Closed-captioned; available Spanish subtitles, and dubbed tracks in French or Spanish.

Golden Globe Award, 1951.

Contents:

Side A. Feature film ; theatrical trailer ; Movietone newsreel (1951) -- Side B. Documentary "Making the Earth Stand Still" (70 min.) ; restoration comparison ; still galleries ; trailers.

ISBN:

9786307450472

Publisher Number:

5

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

147146

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Day the

Medium:

[videorecording]