The Day the Earth Stood Still

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.

The whiz-bang opening with some legit American broadcasters, alarm spreading as a genuine flying saucer is detected racing through the earth’s atmosphere, landing by special effects at the baseball field on the Ellipse south of the White House, from The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.

Bobby (Billy Gray), suspicious because his house-mate “Mr. Carpenter” (really alien Klaatu, Michael Rennie) borrowed his flashlight on false premises, follows him and discovers he really is the missing spaceman who landed in Washington, D.C., in The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.

Alien Klaatu (Michael Rennie) spending the day minding his new house-mate Bobby (Billy Gray), visiting the space ship, which he dares not say belongs to him, then dropping by the Washington, D.C. home of scientist Barnhardt, whom he hopes to approach, in The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.

Original theatrical trailer for hit 195 real-world cold-war science fiction thriller The Day The Earth Stood Still, from Twentieth Century-Fox, starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal.

Klaatu (Michael Rennie), for now in his space helmet, emerges from the craft landed in Washington, D.C., engaged by a trigger-happy soldier despite his assurances, the robot Gort appearing to neutralize weapons, early in The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951, from a story by Harry Bates.

Klaatu (Michael Rennie), frustrated in his efforts to convene a meeting of world leaders, escaped from a military hospital, goes incognito in Washington, D.C., at a boarding house meeting Bobby (Billy Gray), his mom (Patricia Neal) and others, in The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.