roducer Julian Blaustein brought together three Oscar® - winning talents to work on his "serious" science fiction film: director Robert Wise The Sound of Music, writer Edmund H. North Patton, and composer Bernard Herrmann Taxi Driver. It was feared that the outbreak of the Korean War would cause the script, with its message of world peace, to be shelved, but Darryl Zanuck personally pushed it forward and a classic was born.
spaceship lands in Washington, D.C. capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls of violence. But one young woman and her son (Patricia Neal, Bill Gray) befriend him...realizing they may be all that stands between the human race and total destruction.
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