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Release year: 1954

Storyline

A stranger from Venus lands in Britain and forms a bond with a young American woman. He comes with a warning to Earth's leaders that they must eliminate all nuclear weapons if the peoples of the solar system are to survive.

Top credits

Directors

Burt Balaban

Writers

Cast

Patricia Neal — Susan North
Helmut Dantine — The Stranger
Derek Bond — Arthur Walker
Cyril Luckham — Dr. Meinard

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• The setting of this film is somewhat mysterious. It appears to be England, but the radio has American voices instead of British ones; both the doctor and the barmaid have very English accents, but middle-European names; the police wear uniforms suggestive of eastern Europe (and carry revolvers in a holster); a politician is described as "Secretary of the Interior", a post which does not exist in the British government; there is a reference to "the President", rather than the Prime Minister; and the inn where much of the action takes place seems halfway between an English pub and an Austrian gasthaus.

• This film is usually said to be set in England or Britain. But it seems clear that it is implied to be in an unnamed fictional country. The police and military are not wearing British uniforms. The vehicles have non-British license plates. The vehicles themselves are mixture of British and foreign types. Various ranks and titles are not those used in Britain. Even the payphone on the wall of the pub is not one that would normally be seen in Britain.

• Similar premise to The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). Patricia Neal starred in both films.