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Fans of Lost in Space (1965) will notice a striking familiarity in the combination of horn swells, f [...]	D
Patricia Neal has admitted in interviews that she was completely unaware during the filming that the [...]	D
Originally Klaatu's post-death resurrection at the end of the movie was meant to be permanent, reinf [...]	D
In the 1950's when the story is set, littering apparently wasn't considered rude. When Klaatu is abo [...]	D
The spaceship lands on "The Ellipse", a large open space to the south of the White House and north o [...]	D
Released on Janet Munro's 17th birthday.	D
At seven minutes a radio DJ can be seen broadcasting from a mic labeled WMAL. WMAL is a radio statio [...]	D
Italian censorship visa # 11383 delivered on 28 February 1952.	D
All of the scenes of Helen Benson and Klaatu in the taxi also feature footage from the second unit o [...]	D
Robert Wise was attracted to the project because of its overt anti-military stance and also because [...]	D
The scene of the large crowd fleeing the saucer area after Gort appears is all too obviously "sped u [...]	D
According to TCM, Patricia Neal could barely keep a straight face when saying the words "Klaatu bara [...]	D
Although he was already signed to play the Albert Einstein-like Professor Barnhardt, a part not diss [...]	D
Some reference works state that Adventures of Superman (1952) star George Reeves appeared as a telev [...]	D
During the early phases of pre-production for the film, 20th Century-Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanu [...]	D
Besides Claude Rains, the other actor suggested for the part of Klaatu, by studio head Zanuck, was S [...]	D
Klaatu was born in 1873.	D
Bernard Herrmann's music for the film is scored for two theremins, pianos, harps, different electric [...]	D
The equations seen on Professor Barnhardt's blackboard are authentic physics, and describe a particu [...]	D
In the original short story on which the screenplay is loosely based, the robot, Gnut, was the maste [...]	D
A print of Maxfield Parrish's Garden Of Allah can be seen above the piano in the living room when Bo [...]	D
Writer Edmund H. North was a former army officer who wrote the script in response to the proliferati [...]	D
Actor Hugh Marlowe often confused with Actor Richard Carlson	D
Even though Hugh Marlowe plays a cad and disrupter in this film, he will return to classic science f [...]	D
Klaatu says he's from a planet 250 million miles away, but doesn't name it. Scientists in the movie [...]	D
Three years after this was made, it was adapted for the "Lux Radio Theatre". Michael Rennie and Bill [...]	D
The DVD commentary is done by director Robert Wise and is joined by fellow director Nicholas Meyer. [...]	D
This was Michael Rennie's third film for 20th Century-Fox; though he was under contract to the studi [...]	D
The film takes place in July 1951.	D
Footage from this movie is used for the landing of the Kanamits in Ai confini della realtÃ : To Se [...]	D
Originally broadcast on network television during the first season of NBC Saturday Night at the Movi [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Olan Soule and Frances Bavier, who played boarders in the film, would later share the screen again i [...]	D
Ranked #5 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Sci-Fi" in Ju [...]	D
This was the second big budget science fiction feature film to be released by a major American studi [...]	D
Although the title music isn't played with traditional instruments, hints of composer Bernard Herrma [...]	D
As Gort liberates Klaatu from his jail cell, and carries him into their spaceship, the musical phras [...]	D
Darryl F. Zanuck was the one who first suggested Michael Rennie for the part of Klaatu after having [...]	D
The spaceship was made of wood, wire and Plaster of Paris.	D
The drawbridge shown in the up position when the electricity has been neutralized is a photo of the [...]	D
The first actor to whom the role of Klaatu was actually offered was Claude Rains, who wanted to acce [...]	D
In the scene where Gort is seen carrying Klaatu's body (inside the ship), Michael Rennie was actuall [...]	D
This was a big event when first broadcast on television. Saturday Night At The Movies (NBC), March 3 [...]	D
To depict the seamless closing of the ship and its ramp, they just reversed the film of the shot of [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 400 movies nominated for the Top 100 G [...]	D
In the original script, Klaatu's resurrection scene was to have taken place in the space craft's med [...]	D
Because the stationary Gort statue was several inches taller than Lock Martin and could not stand on [...]	D
This is an early example of composer Bernard Herrmann's ability to make a musical score become anoth [...]	D
There were three different versions of Lock Martin's foam Gort suit: one with lacings up the front f [...]	D
When Klaatu tell Professor Barnhardt that he was in the hospital, Room 309, it was Room 306	D
The name "Richard Carlson" - another leading sci-fi actor of the 1950s - appears at the bottom of th [...]	D
The film was shot on the 20th Century-Fox back lot, which is now an upscale office complex known as [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Years o [...]	D
One of the more distinctive and subliminally eerie effects in the film, is a musical organ chord hel [...]	D
The screenplay was based on the story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates. It was originally pub [...]	D
The Army refused to cooperate after reading the script. The studio then approached the National Guar [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...]	D
The cover of Ringo Starr's 1974 album "Goodnight Vienna" features Ringo and Gort.	D
Jean Charney's debut.	D
The crowds were made up of local government employees, including some from the FBI offices, who were [...]	D
According to the shooting script on the DVD special features, significant dialogue between Klaatu an [...]	D
Klaatu adopts the name "Carpenter" while hiding from the authorities, in a none-too-subtle nod to th [...]	D
At the military meeting during the power outage, one officer reports that all communications are out [...]	D
When Bobby is playing in his bedroom with his train, Klaatu doesn't bother to knock on his door befo [...]	D
Robert Benson, Sr. was born in Virginia on April 10, 1916 and was killed in the landing at Anzio bea [...]	D
In 1951, 20th Century-Fox theatrically distributed this with the short film The Guest (1951).	D
To increase the sense of reality, some of the most famous broadcast journalists of the time were hir [...]	D
Klaatu says that he traveled for about five months, covering a distance of about 250 million miles, [...]	D
It might be noted that the business address on the dry cleaner's tag says "Washington 12, D.C.". Thi [...]	D
Klaatu leaves the address of 1412 Harvard St. NW DC for Professor Barnhardt. This is a real address.	D
Doubles were used for Klaatu and Bobby in long shots of them walking around Washington, DC. In reali [...]	D
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the film on January 4, 1954 with Micha [...]	D
In the scene in London when the power is supposedly out allover the world, the scene depicts a boat [...]	D
Young Billy Gray became one of the most recognized child actors in film and television during the 50 [...]	D
When Bobby and Klaatu visit the saucer together, the black silhouettes of soldiers standing behind G [...]	D
In the original story by Harry Bates, Klaatu is killed immediately and has no dramatic part in the s [...]	D
Sam Jaffe had an engineering degree and taught mathematics before becoming an actor, a good backgrou [...]	D
In the boarding house scenes, Mrs. Barley is played by Frances Bavier and Mr. Krull is played by Ola [...]	D
According to Danny Elfman, Bernard Herrmann's score inspired him to become a composer.	D
The man interviewing the crowd has WEAM on his microphone. This is a popular Washington D.C. radio s [...]	D
One of the reasons Michael Rennie was cast as Klaatu was that he was generally unknown to American a [...]	D
Anne Baxter was originally cast in the role of Helen Benson.	D
Several quotes from the film were used in the music group Expose album, of the same name in 1992. "I [...]	D
Harry Bates was paid a mere $500 by 20th Century-Fox for the rights to his short story "Farewell to [...]	D
In the opening title montage of astro-photographs representing Klaatu's trip to Earth, the last obje [...]	D
This film's pacifist/international cooperation message was decidedly out of sync with the Cold War e [...]	D
In the original story, "Farewell to the Master", the robot's name was Gnut, not Gort.	D
Bernard Herrmann, a master of unconventional orchestrations, used two Theremins to create his eerie [...]	D
Lock Martin, the doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater, was cast because of his nearly seven-foot hei [...]	D
To give the appearance of seamlessness to the space ship, the crack around the door was filled with [...]	D
In addition to the two Gort costumes worn by Lock Martin, a fiberglass statue of the robot, several [...]	D
It is possible that Klaatu Barada Nikto is in a mishmash of languages from the Indian subcontinent. [...]	D
The design of the spaceship was reputedly based on the interior of a Frank Lloyd Wright office build [...]	D
Klaatu tra Marte e Giove	D
Klaatu establishes that he traveled to planet Earth from 250 million miles away. 250 million miles i [...]	D
In the scenes of Gort carrying both Helen Benson and Klaatu up the ramp and into the ship, lightweig [...]	D

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