Ben Mankiewicz Intro - The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Original Trailer)

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.

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) We Have Come To Visit You In Peace

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.

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Gort, Baringa!

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.

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Holy Christmas!

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.

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) A Problem In Celestial Mechanics

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.

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) What Other Terrors Can He Unleash?

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.