The Day The Earth Stood Still: Arthur Tofte

A full length version of the classic short story on which the original film - starring Michael Rennie - was based. Out of the sky it comes - alien and mysterious and menacing. For more than two days the people of earth watch as it crisscrosses the globe. All over the world there are the same reactions: mystifiction - and fear. Then it lands. In an open park near the heart of Washington D.C. , it sits for a day and a night. After many hours, a panel in the ship opens. From it come two figures - a man and a robot. For a long moment they face the silent crowd..then the man speaks: "I am Klaatu and this is Gnut." He raises his right arm, palm outward, in the universal signal for peace. The gesture is rewarded with a burst of gunfire. Mortally wounded, the alien falls to the ground...and thus begins a classic story about invaders from outer space. The story that inspired a classic movie. With black and white stills from the original film.