Experiments with various acids and other substances failed. Still tinkering 15 years later, he set up a pewter plate layered with photosensitive bitumen of Judea on his attic window facing a courtyard ...

Michael Rennie (1909 – 1971) as Klaatu, followed by the powerful robot Gort on the poster for science fiction classic ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’, 1951. American actress Patricia Neal is the ...

But "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is a notable exception to the general run of outer-space productions. Most of the recent science fiction movies have been involved with trick celestial ...