FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer95%as of 2024-11-08
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.1/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic83/100as of 2025-10-17
What it is
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 American science fiction film from 20th Century-Fox, produced by Julian Blaustein and directed by Robert Wise. It stars Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier and Lock Martin. The screenplay was written by Edmund H. North, based on the 1940 science fiction short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates.
At a glance
- Genres
- Science fiction / Horror / Drama
- Original language
- English
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