When a UFO lands in Washington, D.C., bearing a message for Earth's leaders, all of humanity stands still. Klaatu (Michael Rennie) has come on behalf of alien life who have been watching Cold War-era nuclear proliferation on Earth. But it is Klaatu's soft-spoken robot Gort that presents a more immediate threat to onlookers. A single mother (Patricia Neal) and her son teach the world about peace and tolerance in this moral fable, ousting the tanks and soldiers that greet the alien's arrival.
Release date: September 28, 1951 (USA)
Director: Robert Wise
Adapted from: Farewell to the Master
Story by: Harry Bates
Screenplay: Edmund H. North
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios