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DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL ('51) DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL ('51) pb OR search current auctions Auction History Result #167 DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL pb '51 Rennie Date Sold 12/18/2001Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Pressbook (Measures 14" x 18"; 24 pages). Also included is an 11 1/2" x 16" newspaper style herald that has 4 pages and is bound into the pressbook! (Learn More) The Day the Earth Stood Still, the classic 1951 Robert Wise science fiction (sci-fi) alien-contact thriller ("From out of space.... a warning and an ultimatum!"; "Strange power from another planet menaces the Earth!"; from the story by Harry Bates; about a super intelligent alien visiting the Earth, and mankind mistrusts him without reason; he is able to "pass" as a human, and he visits the world's greatest scientist, and when he is injured and taken to a hospital, he is rescued by his robot Gort) starring Michael Rennie (as Klaatu), Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, and Lock Martin (as Gort the Robot). Note that the unusual music heard in this movie was achieved through the use of the musical instrument called a theramin, and audiences loved the eerie sounds it made, and it became standard in many science fiction movies thereafter to use this instrument in the same way! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: The herald for this pressbook is a great "newspaper style" herald that was bound in to the center of each pressbook. It is rare to find a copy of this pressbook with the herald intact. The herald's headline is "WORLD THREATNED WITH DESTRUCTION BY DISTANT PLANET (story inside)"! Condition: very good. There is a small fingernail-sized piece out to the right of "DAY THE" of the title. The pressbook was folded in half an extra time. There are minor creases in the edges of the pressbook and in the foldline. Other than these minor defects, the pressbook is in fine condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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