The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), where Klaatu announces to the assembled scientists that the nations of Earth must learn to be peaceable, or else a peaceable interplanetary organization will kill every living creature on Earth and destroy the planet.
>>>The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), where Klaatu announces to the assembled scientists that the nations of Earth must learn to be peaceable, or else a peaceable interplanetary organization will kill every living creature on Earth and destroy the planet<<<
I never understood why they would threaten to turn Earth in a burned out cinder when they were capable of just shutting off the Electricity.
Do that and we can’t launch anything into Space to threaten “the other planets”.
Still had the coolest Robot and the coolest Spaceship.
When asked how they guy got in and out of the Robot Costume when there were no visible seams, Robert Wise the Director said they actually had two Costumes. One with a zipper in the front and another with a zipper in the back.
I only caught one scene they screwed up where you can see the openings under the Robots Chin so the Actor could breathe. Then again, imagine an Alien Space Ship landing in D.C. with only two Army Privates assigned to guard it.
Still one of my favorite Sci Fi Movies. The remake was horrible.
I was fortunate to have read the short story on which the film was based Farewell to the Master, 1940, before watching the movie, 1951.
Even the title of the original short story by Harry Bates suggests the impact of the surprise ending, which was bastardized with incipient political correctness...
The ending lines are (paraphrasing)
"Klaatu, please tell your master that we humans will straighten ourselves up and fly right, and we are grateful for his guidance..."
Even after 60+ years, I remember Klaatu's final words, and the final words of the story :
"You misunderstand me, the might robot had said...
I am the master.
I liked the twist they did on that in the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone, where the aliens show up, and the humans all of the sudden come together in peace, but what the aliens really wanted was a planet of warriors, not peaceniks, and they tell the earthlings they're going to destroy them because they're weak.