71-Year Old Movie SECRET Finally Revealed about 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' You Wanted to Know!

I am very aware who Mickey Rooney was. I know he was short 5’2”. The average sized man I was referring to was in the other photo. I assumed everyone would get that was Mickey Rooney without having to explicitly refer to him.

71-Year Old Movie SECRET Finally Revealed about "The Day The Earth Stood Still" You Wanted to Know!
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[ddavenpAZ]

Holy Sleeping ET Batman, it’s Dr. Somnambula! Does Catwoman know? Lol. Great video Rick! I am currently rewatching the great monster movie videos you previously made, kinda my Halloween tradition now, but these new ones you have in store for us, are off to an amazing start! I LOVE the behind the scenes info and this was jam packed! Much appreciation to you! Thank you! Thank you too for making the time to do these. I know that trip is coming up and your time is very limited, but the fact that you made an effort to create these videos all the while, is truly commendable! Again, thank you very, very much! Btw, did you carve those pumpkins yourself?

[roberttelarket]

The Day The Earth Stood Still is one of 10 greatest sci-fi movies of all times!!!

[steveradcliffe]

Klaatu's final speech is so relevant today and one of the most dramatic endings in any genre of movies.

[jamesroseby]

There were three Sci Fi movies that grabbed my imagination in my childhood. The Time Machine (Rod Taylor), Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still. The spaceship opening up in TDTESS had a huge impact on this young mind. Brilliantly done. Now I know how. Thank you.

[RickPiasecki]

This is the best sci-fi movie of all time, IMHO! I was an 8-10 yo kid when I first saw it, and it made a lasting impression on me! The story, the script, the casting, the special effects are all incredible for the era. Michael Rennie was perfectly cast as Klaatu and Patricia Neal was perfect as well; Gort is the best robot ever envisioned by Hollywood, and has the best death-ray, probably inspiring lasers, well before lasers were even invented! ❤❤❤

[greengold]

The performance of actor Sam Jaffe, who plays Professor Barnhardt, is so under-appreciated. Jaffe delivers acting and lines with great nuanced comic relief in a somewhat grim narrative.

[agb]

In "Farewell to the Master, " the short story the movie was based on story, Klatu is shot and killed almost immediately. The story is told from the point of view of a guy named Sutherland. He discovers Gort is trying to create another Klatu, and ends up trying to help him. At story's end, the knew Klatu has not bee created yet, so Sutherland apologizes to Gort for his peers having killed "his master." Gort tell him, "You misunderstand. I am the master." So it was more a cautionary tale about the advance of machines over men than one about warfare.


There were two Gort suits the actor did the dynamic scenes in, and there was a Gort statue that was used for the scenes where the robot did not move, so the latter were easy scenes to shoot as far as the robot was concerned. One of the Gort suits had its seam in the back for shots where he was facing the camera, and the other Gort suit had its seam in the front for shots where he was walking away from the camera. You can glimpse the seams a couple of times.

When the camera is panning away from the fellow using the torch on the ship, for a moment you can see the piece of nonflammable material they placed on the ship to keep it from burning.

My two favorite scenes are when the ship lands because the effect is so well done given when the movie was made. The shadow and the perspective match of the ship to the background are excellent. The other is the cut to the first look at Gort standing outside the door of the ship because it is so powerful and menacing without needing any movement at all.

[iranausley]

Thank you for showing some of the nuances of filming "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Agreeably one of the best of the early science fiction movies. I had the pleasure of meeting Loch Martin in the 1951–1952-time frame. He was working at Bob's Big Boy in Van Nys as a car director for the Drive In. I was 12 at the time and I happened to be selling newspapers at Bob's when he started there. A truly wonderful person to know. I remember him coming to work one afternoon driving a Woody Station Wagon. It was amazing to see him extricate himself from the driver's position. I did not appear the car was modified in any way. Once dropped off, his wife, very normal in size would take over and drive away. A wonderful once in a lifetime experience.

[wiseguymaybe]

Gork and Michael Rennie's Klaatu stand out in my memory from when I first saw this movie as a kid. Another interesting fact, that Leonard Nimoy actually used Klaatu, Michael Rennie, as one of his influences to delvelope his characterization of Mr' Spock. I always felt that Michael would have made a fantastic Vulcan. 🛸🛸Live long and prosper Rick.🖖

[Docjonel]

While a lot of 1950's sci fi movies fit the definition of "B" movies, "The Day the Earth Stood Still, " "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, " and George Pal's "The War of the Worlds" were first rate science fiction that hold up well to this day. They explored important themes and were well produced and acted.

[arnoldanderson]

Yes, this movie is definitely the best SciFi classic movie ever and casting Michael Rennie was sheer genius. I simply have to watch this at least once a year.

[ronkemperful]

One of my favorite SiFi movies is this movie. The actors were quite professional and did not ham it up, for its time the special effects and electronic music from Bernard Herman really filled out what could have been a weak plot. Great review and I hope that you touch on another great 50s movie, ‘The Forbidden Planet’ which I think was a classic precursor of all modern science fiction.

[thomasbruner]

This movie was made the year I was born, and I've watched it at least a dozen times over the years. Never gets old!

[fleetcomm]

Klaatu’s speech at the end of the movie was spectacular. I was 8 years old in 1962 when I watched it and for an immature little kid that speech having such impact on me still amazes me. All of Gort scenes were awesome because I love robots. When Robby was on Lost in Space I was in Heaven.

[tkarlmann]

The best part of the movie was the ultimate class brought by Michael Rennie. What a fantastic performance! Now when I was a kid, seeing the film for the first time, my ultimate fixation was Gort, the Robot. (I think the fixation I had with Robbie, the robot from "Forbidden Planet", just NEVER faded!)

[kennethlee]

Michael Rennie went on to play The Keeper in two Lost In Space episodes and the theme music from Day The Earth Stood Still was reused as the theme music in the first pilot of Lost In Space. Guy Williams, Zorro and then John Robinson in Lost In Space also has a bit part as a radio operator in DTESS.

[towerman]

This was one of my favorite movies of all time. I was only 10 years old the first time I saw it, and to this day, I think it had something to do with the career I chose in life. I was an Electrical Engineer for NASA.

[TRCFL]

Years ago I toured Paul Allen’s movie prop collection in Seattle and at the time he owned the model saucer used in the flying scenes. It was surprisingly large, but unfortunately sustained some damage over the decades. It was one of my favourite items among the hundreds he owned. My second was Captain Kirks chair from the original Star Trek.

[joen]

Even after all these years ( I've been around a while) I still get chills when I hear Patricia Neal tell Gort "Clatu berata nicto". Don't know why, it just happens. Great movie. The fact that it was in Black and White only adds to the beauty of it. Hope no one tries to colorize it. That would ruin it. So please don't!

[theluth]

I was 10 when this movie came out. Man I thought, wow this sure is scary and I hope this never really happens!
Still love that old movie today!
Always loved the behind and also the truth of what's really happening and what we really didn't see when it was playing.