"I won't resort to threats, Mr. Harley. I merely tell you the future of your planet is at stake."A spaceship lands in Washington, DC and the lone alien, Klaatu (Michael Rennie) exits to impart a message to
the united nations, but is shot by a twitchy soldier. Gort, a robot, appears to save him, melting the soldiers weapons and tank in the process. The wounded alien orders a halt to the carnage and having talked to the politicians gets nowhere. So he escapes to travel incogneto to learn about people and how to impart his important message. To do so he rents a room with a family who eventually start to suspect he is not who he says he is. When confronted he tells them that Gort is a super-robot invented to keep peace in the galaxy, and will destroy the earth if provoked. But how is he going to deliver his message to the whole world at the same time.
A classic cold-war sci-fi where an alien arrives to try and protect people from themselves.
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