The day the earth stood still
(DVD)

Based on the story "Farewell to the master" by Harry Bates.

Videodisc release of the 1951 motion picture.

Bonus features (not rated or closed captioned): Audio commentary by Robert Wise and Nicolas Meyer; 70-minute "Making the Earth stand still" documentary; Movietone newsreel (1951); restoration comparison; 5 still galleries; shooting script; theatrical trailer.

Music, Bernard Herrmann ; director of photography, Leo Tover ; special photographic effects, Fred Sersen.

Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin.

"A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one young woman and her son (Patricia Neal, Billy Gray) befriend him ... and soon realize that they may be all that stands between the human race and total destruction"--Container.

Rated G.

DVD, THX (NTSC Region 1).

Closed-captioned; available Spanish subtitles, and dubbed tracks in French or Spanish.

Golden Globe Award, 1951.