The free public film series THE SCREENING ROOM: CLASSICS, CROWD-PLEASERS AND NEGLECTED GEMS continues at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23, with the compelling, thought-provoking 1951 science-fiction drama THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.
THE SCREENING ROOM takes place at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, 350 N. Wood Ave., downtown Florence. The ongoing series is co-sponsored by the library and Pillar of Fire.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL tells the chilling but inspiring story of an alien visitor named Klaatu (Michael Rennie) and a towering robot named Gort who land their spacecraft in Washington, D.C., at the height of the Cold War.
The team of extraterrestrial ambassadors brings the leaders of the nations of the world an intergalactic ultimatum from the rest of the universe: Preserve peace on Earth or be destroyed forever.
Directed by Robert Wise (WEST SIDE STORY, THE HAUNTING, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE), THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL also stars Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Billy Gray and Sam Jaffe.
For more information, call the library at (256) 764-6564 or Pillar of Fire at (256) 366-4512, or e-mail pillaroffire@bellsouth.net.
“Your choice is simple: Join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration.” – Klaatu (Michael Rennie) in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)
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