The day the earth stood still
(2002, original release: 1951)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/SCI-FI/DAY

0 Holds on 1 Copy

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/SCI-FI/DAY Due: 3/22/2024

Details

PUBLISHED
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2002]
©2002
EDITION
Full fram version
DESCRIPTION

1 video disc (92 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
6307450479 a 5
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

DVD (NTSC Region 1)

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

A visitor from outer space comes with the warning that unless war is abolished, Earth will be destroyed by the more advanced planets of the universe

Full frame format (Aspect ratio 1.33:1)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1951

Based on a story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates

Special features include optional THX optimizer; audio commentary by Robert Wise and Nicolas Meyer; 70-minute Making the Earth stand still; Movietone Newsreel (1951); Restoration comparison; 5 still galleries; shooting script; theatrical trailer

Screenplay, Edmund H. North ; 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, and Lock Martin

MPAA rating: G

Closed captioned. Sound tracks in English (stereo.), English (mono.), French (mono.), and Spanish (mono.,) with option subtitles in English and Spanish (feature film only)

Golden Globe Award, 1951

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