The 27th Day

The story

Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...

Cast & crew

Gene BarryJonathan Clark

Valerie FrenchEve Wingate

George VoskovecProf. Klaus Bechner

Azemat JantiIvan Godofsky

Stefan SchnabelThe Soviet General

Friedrich von LedeburDr. Karl Neuhaus

Ralph ClantonMr Ingram

Arnold MossThe Alien

Monty Ash

Monty AshSoviet Prison Physician

Theo MarcuseSoviet Col. Gregor

Paul BirchAdmiral

Paul FreesRadio Newscaster Ward Mason