Ultimatum alla Terra

Titolo originale: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Regia: Robert Wise |
Anno: 1951
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Fantascienza Thriller Dramma
Tag: spacecraft | flying saucer | peace | remote control | ufo | social commentary | giant robot | black and white | military | physics professor | humanity | alien technology |
Cast: Michael Rennie | Patricia Neal | Billy Gray | Sam Jaffe | Hugh Marlowe | Lock Martin | Freeman Lusk | Edith Evanson | Frank Conroy | Frances Bavier | John Brown | Olan Soule | Marjorie Crossland | Elmer Davis | H.V. Kaltenborn | Drew Pearson | Gabriel Heatter | Harry Lauter | James Doyle | Larry Dobkin | Robert Osterloh | Glenn Hardy | Tyler McVey | House Peters Jr. | George Lynn | Dorothy Neumann | Wheaton Chambers | Carleton Young | Harry Harvey | Sammy Ogg | Bess Flowers | James Seay | Grady Galloway | Hassan Khayyam | John Barton | Stuart Whitman | Rama Bai | John Burton | Bill Welsh |

L'alieno Klaatu, atterrato negli Stati Uniti con un disco volante, chiede di vedere i leader dell'umanità per convincere le potenze mondiali a eliminare le armi nucleari. Accolto con ostile ottusità, cercherà di vivere in incognito e di conoscere gli umani: a guardia del disco rimane Gort, un silenzioso ma potentissimo robot.

Errori

In the side shot of Drew Pearson's telecast, the television camera trained on him is seen dollying b [...] D
When the Government Agents, and later Helen and Tom, pull up in their cars in front of 1412 Harvard [...] D
In some long shots of Gort walking, wrinkles in the legs of the costume are clearly visible. Howeve [...] D
If temporarily stopping the world's electricity cut off all communications, there would be no way th [...] D
Klaatu arranges to have the electromagnetic fields neutralized from 12.00 pm to 12:30 pm EST, yet it [...] D
When Klaatu and Bobby first go to find Professor Barnhardt at his home, they go to his patio doors l [...] D
When Klaatu returns to the ship at night to contact his people, Gort is shown from the front after h [...] D
Klaatu is shot in his left shoulder, yet we see him wounded on the ground and leaning against his le [...] D
When Klaatu visits Dr. Barnhardt in the evening, there is a small piece of paper pinned to one side [...] D
Just after Klaatu is shot and is in the hospital, he is visited by a government official. Klaatu sta [...] D
At the beginning of the time electricity is out, we see a taxicab rolling to a stop. However, right [...] D
As the spaceship races across the world, scenes of successive radio announcers (or people listening [...] D
In the shots from behind of Gort carrying first Helen, and later Klaatu, into the spaceship, the peo [...] D
In the final scene, Gort alternately stands feet together/feet apart between shots. D
After Helen tells Gort "Klaatu Barada Nikto", he picks her up and carries her to the ship. There wer [...] D
When Gort begins marching down the ship's ramp at the beginning, a shot shows the crowds running awa [...] D
A photograph shows the famous publicity still with Gort to the left of the photo and helmet-clad Kla [...] D
Drew Pearson's desk doesn't have any pens on it when he starts his broadcast. There are two pens dir [...] D
After Klaatu is shot, blood is seen on his shoulder, but when he's actually shot, not only is there [...] D
General Cutler tells his board members during the power freeze that all communications in the world [...] D
When Gort moves behind the wall to pick up Helen, the frame shifts slightly. This was because direct [...] D
During the power outage, one of the scenes of a city avenue has in it a sign which is blinking. D
When the army is hunting for Klaatu the Colonel receives the license plate number and repeats it for [...] D
In Klaatu's hospital room, the light switch is on the wrong side of the door. Normally the light swi [...] D
When Gort picks up Helen, she is wearing shiny black high-heeled shoes. In the scenes immediately be [...] D
The fat man running crying, "They landed in the Mall," is wrong. The Mall is a long relatively narro [...] D
When Gort goes to collect Klaatu, he passes Helen as he walks to the door of the central room in the [...] D
When Helen and Klaatu are going to the professor's, the army states that their cab is heading northw [...] D
When Klaatu asks Mr. Harley if he could speak to the United Nations about his mission, Harley allows [...] D
Fly wires can be seen holding up Helen Benson as Gort begins to carry her toward the spacecraft. (Lo [...] D
A colonel orders his troops to block off all streets intersecting Connecticut Avenue "along a line f [...] D
The newspaper article headlined "Step Up Hunt for Spaceman" is accompanied by a photograph of Klaatu [...] D
Bobby's father's tombstone says Lt. Robert Benson was with the 45th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Inf [...] D
Klaatu spends a couple of days wandering round Washington DC and listening to the radio with the lod [...] D
Klaatu states that his people have given their interstellar police - robots like Gort - absolute pow [...] D
When Bobby is doing his math homework, Klaatu looks over his shoulder and says: "All you have to rem [...] D
Not all vehicles would have been stopped by the power outage. Diesel engines, particularly at that t [...] D
When the soldiers are tracking the cab, they speak of "Massachusetts" and "Connecticut" Avenues. In [...] D
The broadcast with Drew Pearson shows the first angle from the side with no microphone shadow. When [...] D
The British radar man says it's moving at 4,000 mph. Then says it must be a Buzzbomb. As a British r [...] D
When Gort puts Klaatu into the "life regeneration" device the blood stain on Klaatu's suit coat reve [...] D
After the electricity is neutralized we see a motorcycle cop trying to start his motorcycle and the [...] D
Some suggested that it was impossible for Klaatu to have learned handwriting via radio, however, TV [...] D
In one scene near the end, the sound of an airplane approaching can be heard, then there is a cut to [...] D
When Gort picks up Helen and begins walking towards the spaceship, the closures on the front of the [...] D
In the scenes showing the arrival of the military, Klaatu's injury and the eradication of the weapon [...] D
Bobby's room is clearly shown to be at the top of the staircase, and Helen's room is down the hall. [...] D
At the beginning, H.V. Kaltenborn mentions the 'beautiful spring weather' in the Nation's capital, b [...] D
Klaatu tells Professor Barnhardt that he was in room 309 of Walter Reed Hospital, but the number on [...] D
Klaatu gives Bobby several diamonds and tells him they're what his planet uses for money. However, t [...] D
When the spaceship (seen as a glowing white disc) is tracked across the sky in Washington, D.C., it [...] D
When the military are trying to cut through the metal of the spaceship, a square of asbestos materia [...] D
If the earth doesn't accept the conditions of Klattu's race.. they will simply incinerate us! Hardly [...] D
After taking Helen on the spaceship, as Gort is leaving, you can briefly see the costume lacing on h [...] D
When Helen is taken into the spaceship and is sitting on the bench, her right hand is alternately by [...] D
When revealing his identity to Professor Barnhardt, Klaatu stated he stayed in room 309 at Walter Re [...] D
Bobby and Klaatu visit the grave of Bobby's dad. Whilst still at Arlington National Cemetery, they d [...] D
In the close-up of the quick-triggered soldier atop the tank turret, we see and hear him fire his pi [...] D
After Klaatu is shot from behind, the soldiers who examine him make no attempt to apprehend Helen, d [...] D
During the montage shots of newspaper headlines during the hunt for Klaatu, a photograph shows him s [...] D
During the power outage, Professor Barnhardt's secretary excitedly tells him that the whole city has [...] D
Beth displays a complete lack of parental concern as she allows Klaatu, going under the name of Mr C [...] D
The morning when the guard and nurse discover Klaatu missing in the hospital room they rush in befor [...] D
Klaatu is from a highly advanced collection of races that have overcome all great social issues. One [...] D