SNUBS: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

"Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration."

We're coming in this week like a flying saucer into Earth's atmosphere with a movie that's both way ahead  of its time and also incredibly dated. Flying saucer movies could be a dime a dozen in the atomic age, but only a few managed to capture the public's imagination like this week's movie. This is the template for a lot of sci-fi to come, even though it suffers from some haphazard execution and some frankly terrible acting. Make sure you're on Gort's good side and don't get vaporized as we discuss The Day the Earth Stood Still on Have a Good Movie!

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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.

Excerpt taken "Prelude and Outer Space" from the film The Day The Earth Stood Still, written and composed by Bernard Herrmann and conducted by Joel McNeely. © 1951 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 2003 Varese Sarabande Records, Inc.

Excerpt taken from the main title to the film A Face in the Crowd, composed and conducted by Tom Glazer & Budd Schulberg and performed by the Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra.  Copyright 1957 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.