The Day the Earth Stood Still – 1960s RR

Condition: Very Good

Folded as Issued: Now Placed on Linen 

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Size: 47 x 63 inches (120 x 160 cm) 

An original French Grande poster for the 1960s re-release of “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, featuring artwork by Boris Grinsson. The poster has been professionally cleaned before being placed on linen.

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.

When a UFO lands in Washington, D.C., bearing a message for Earth's leaders, all of humanity stands still. Klaatu has come on behalf of an alien race that has been watching Cold War-era nuclear proliferation on Earth, but it is Klaatu's soft-spoken robot Gort that presents a more immediate threat to onlookers. A single mother and her son teach the world about peace and tolerance in this moral fable, ousting the tanks and soldiers that greet the aliens' arrival.

"A robot and a man … hold the world spellbound with new and startling powers from another planet!"

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