The day the earth stood still (Film, 1990s) [Texas Group Catalog]
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The day the earth stood still

The day the earth stood still

Author: Robert Wise
Publisher: United States : Twentieth Century-Fox, United States : Fox Video, Inc., 1951 ; [199-?]
Edition/Format:   Film : Film   Visual material : English : Special collector's ed. [Special collector's ed. includes running audio commentary by Robert Wise and Nicholas Meyer, a 70 min. documentary entitled Making the earth stand still, still-frame supplement including production, scene and set photographs, the shooting screenplay, construction blueprints fot he spaceship and American and British pressbooks, memorabilia section with posters, lobby cards, the spaceship model and Gort]View all editions and formats
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"A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., and from it emerges a human-like alien whose mission is to deliver a stern warning to the people of Earth: learn to live in peace or face obliteration"--Videodisc sleeve.
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Genre/Form: Drama
Creature films and programs
Features
Material Type: Film
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Wise
OCLC Number: 423530559
Notes: Creature film; feature.
Credits were supplied from: Film daily yearbook, 1952; videodisc sleeve.
Playing time on release was 92 min., according to: Film daily yearbook, 1952.
Copyright notice on videodisc sleeve: c1951, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, renewed, 1979, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
Credits: Art directors, Lyle Wheeler, Addison Hehr; set decorations, Thomas Little, Claude Carpenter; wardrobe direction, Charles le Maire; Klaatu's costume designed by Perkins Bailey; costumes designed by Travilla; makeup artist, Ben Nye; music, Bernard Herrman; photography, Leo Tover; editor, William Reynolds; special photographic effects, Fred Sersen; sound, Arthur L. Kirbach and Harry M. Leonard.
Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin, Frank Conray, Carleton Young, Fay Roope, Edith Evanson, Robert Osterloh, Tyler McVey, James Seay.
Other Titles: Making the earth stand still.
Responsibility: Twentieth Century-Fox ; producer, Julian Blaustein ; director, Robert Wise ; based on a story by Harry Bates ; screenplay, Edmund H. North.

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"A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., and from it emerges a human-like alien whose mission is to deliver a stern warning to the people of Earth: learn to live in peace or face obliteration"--Videodisc sleeve.
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