The Day the Earth Stood Still

When an alien named Klaatu lands on Earth and proposes spending time among humans to understand them, he faces rejection from the Presidents secretary and instead stays in a boarding house with a young widow and her son, ultimately being shot by the military but revived by his robot companion as they depart from Earth in their spacecraft. The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 American English-language Drama Sci-Fi motion picture starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier and Guy Williams. The movie is based on Farewell to the Master 1940 story in Astounding Science-Fiction Magazine by Harry Bates. 20th Century Fox was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Julian Blaustein. The movie is directed by Robert Wise. 20th Century Fox acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. The Day the Earth Stood Still was released on 20th September 1951 and takes a screen time of 92 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. The Day the Earth Stood Still was made on a budget of $80 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $233 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Edmund H. North. Cinematography was done by Leo Tover and editing by William Reynolds. The music was composed by Bernard Herrmann.