A humanoid alien, coming in peace, lands on DC and requests a meeting with the world leaders. After being met with violence by the state authorities, he seeks refuge in an ordinary household, where he discovers Earth’s beauties and ordeals. In this suggestive religious parable, the chosen one does not come from Bethlehem but the far ends of outer space. He delivers a message of peace, but also a rigorous warning, before ascending back to the skies.
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Motion Picture © 1951 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Renewed 1979 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
Robert Wise was an American film director who enjoyed a long career spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s. Starting off as the editor of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, he went on to shoot films in several genres – from horror movies to film noir, westerns, sports films, science fiction, and musicals. He became especially famous throughout the world for his two musicals, West Side Story and The Sound of Music. A winner of two Academy Awards, he was honored with the Academy’s Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his lifetime achievement as a producer.
1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still
1958 Want to Live!
1961 West Side Story
1965 The Sound of Music
1971 The Andromeda Strain
