The 27th Day

Overview

Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...

Cast

Gene Barry

Jonathan Clark

Valerie French

Eve Wingate

George Voskovec

Prof. Klaus Bechner

Azemat Janti

Ivan Godofsky

Stefan Schnabel

The Soviet General

Friedrich von Ledebur

Dr. Karl Neuhaus

Ralph Clanton

Mr Ingram

Arnold Moss

The Alien

N/A

Monty Ash

Soviet Prison Physician

Theo Marcuse

Soviet Col. Gregor

Paul Birch

Admiral

Paul Frees

Radio Newscaster Ward Mason