SCI-FI MOVIE REVIEW: THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL from STEVE HAYES: Tired Old Queen at the Movies
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SCI-FI MOVIE REVIEW: Halloween brings thrills and suspense as debonair Michael Rennie arrives from another planet to warn the Earth of impending doom in Robert Wise’s Sci-Fi classic; “The Day The Earth Stood Still” (1951). With a brilliant supporting cast including Patricia Neal, Billy Grey and Hugh Beaumont and a spine tingling score by legendary composer Bernard Herrmann. It’s just the thing to set the hair on the back of your neck on end. Happy Halloween from Tired Old Queen at the Movies!
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Incredible to think that Robert Wise also directed The Sound of Music and Run Silent, Run Deep. He was one of the most elastic movie directors ever. He could make a brilliant movie from any genre. He could make a soup commercial into a state-of-the-art classic.
I totally agree. he was a master of versatility!
The Sound of Music is my mom's favorite movie, it's a favorite of mine but not my all time favorite (that would be It's a Wonderful Life). She also loves West Side Story.
He was a versatile pro.
I saw it when I was 10. I was riveted as soon as the other-worldly music began with credits. Now I know it is one of the best of the genre.
Minimal special effects by today's standards but the performances, the script, the music and the direction of Wise more than make up for that. Steve, thanks for reviewing this one. This movie shows why doing a remake was unnecessary.
Forgive me if I sound like a snob, but I think re-makes are seldom neccessay and even less successful. Hollywood never learns. However, I've heard great things about the new "West Side Story" and hope to see it if the Covid ever calms down here. I met Patricia Neal a coouple times, her voice was delightfully smokey and she was very gracious. Best; Steve
Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Steve, you're the best..
I'll give you an hour to cut that out! OXOX
THE MAGIC OF THE FILM IS THE VIEWER CARES ABOUT THE CHARACTERS... A MASTERPIECE
I can only hope you know how much we love you.
I do and I appreciate it more than I can say! Thansk you so much for watching and for telling me!
Thank you for making this so exciting for us, Mr. Hayes. They should have cast you in the movie. You'd add so much drama, even humor!!🤩
I look like Francis Bavier these days. I still have a torch for Michael Rennie. Woof! Steve
I was nine years old when it first came out,its turned out to be a classic movie,and Michael Rennie's acting is just wonderful
He was always a class act!
LOVE this movie! Love Neal's performance & character - calm, rational, smart, beautiful. Never a damsel in distress, even as a giant alien robot bears down on her.
Yes, always the smartest person in the room.
The Day's opening theme was used for the original pilot for "Lost in Space," 1965. The Day the Earth Stood Still was a serious, well written movie and Lost in Space started out that way too.
And Michael Rennie was the guest star in the two part episode, "The Keeper" in the first season.
The brilliance of Bernard Herrmann!
Robert Wise, a true genius. Just re watched one of the most perfectly crafted screen adaptations musicals of all time "The Sound of Music", by the same director, and lo and behold find this thrilling review of his sci-fi classic, inimitably reviewed by the brilliant Mr. Hayes. Wonderful. Michael.
If you like that, shcek ot "The Haunting" . I did a review of that as well. he was one of the best and most versatile directors. Thanks for the lovely compliment, My Friend. Steve
Wise also directed West Side Story, 4 years before The Sound of Music. They both won Best Picture and he Best Director. They also feature similar openings. The aerial views with floating camera that will make their way closer and closer until you are into the action and the opening song. One of the great directors.
@@petemichael4512 The opening of SOM is one of cinema's most iconic and spine tingling moments, perfectly shot, timed and realized - staggering if you consider the year it was made and the lack of CGI or Steadicam!.
I wish you did these reviews once a week, like you used to; they're glorious.
@Darran Clarke It's logistically impossible at the moment to do one a week anymore, but not to worry, we continue to put them out! thanks for watching!
Can't do that anymore, too many variables. However, they are coming so never fear!
i saw the original "Day the Earth Stood Still"
when I was 11 years old,this Science Fiction
Movie left me with a design to get involved
with film making,my dreams came true
strangely enough with a sister company of
Twentieth Century Fox several years later
I love this! How wonderful! Dreams come true!
The Bernard Herrmann score is a classic: the first, and so far only, score to employ TWO Theremins in the orchestration.
Only Herrmann could do this, Harryhausen, Hitchcock, Scorsese & de Palma.
My absolutely favorite composer bar none. Breathtaking score.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ (2023 UA-cam upload):
"Film Score: Herrmann's The Day the Earth Stood Still Will Blow You Away"
Dear Steve Thank you for giving this extremely intelligent film with its peaceful message such an intelligent review. No monsters from outer space but an attempt at communication and warning. And Patricia Neal was so good in it. I met her in the 1970s when she'd worked like a dog to recover from a stroke - I'd been sent to a screening of a film and to meet someone I was supposed to interview, and she saw me hanging back discreetly and reached to bring me into a small group and talk. Incredibly kind, such a good actress and such a tragic life. I will never forget her.
Indeed she was. A marvelous actress. I had two encounters with her. I went to see a screening of "Julia" when it first came ot and she sat next to me and wept throughout. Lillian Hellman had discovered her for the original Broadway version of "Another part Of the Forest", for which she won one of the first Tony Awartds. It took her to Hollywood and her tragic affair with Gary Cooper during and after "The Founrainhead"...the Max Steiner score of which , ironically, I'm listening to as I write this. When he wouldn't leave his wife and ended the affair, she left Hollywood, went back to New York and had a nervous breakdown, whereupon, Hellman came to her rescue once again, told her she needed to work and mounted a revival of "The Chidren's Hour", whixch sh directed with Kim Hunter co-starring with Neal and Pt was was back in the business. When the lights came up and I saw who'd been weeping next to me, I was so touched. She turned to me and in that smoky voice said ' Wasn't it MAHVELOUS?' I agreed and she was gone. . I didn't see her again until a couple years before she passed when she made an appearance at a Barnes & Noble Bookstore along with Eli Wallach. She was frail and rather subdued. I bought a copy of the DVD of "Hud" and had her sign it, but I asked her; ' What wa Michael Rennie like to work with?" She gazed up at me, because that's what she did, smiled and said: " Oh, he was MAAAAAAHVELOUS." Then with a wink, she added; "He smoked like a chimney!." I laughed while thinking to myself: " Which is what eventually did him in. " She was frank, beautiful, wise and graciousness personified. I'm sorry. I feel like I'm telling you things you already know. I apologize if that is the case. Chalk it up to too many years of too many movies...on second thought, never enough movies!!! Best; Steve
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ You couldn't possibly tell me too much, ever. I was a very new writer at the time I met her, and was supposed to interview someone else (the screening was of a rather bad movie). Roald Dahl was with her, and glowering at everybody (nothing new about that) and Lionel Jeffreys was also there - very good comic actor, and fresh from the success of directing "The Railway Children". Apparently Dahl had wanted him to direct something of his, and Patricia confided to me that unfortunately Jeffreys didn't want to get involved in any film about sex. I'd have loved to talk to her for longer, she was so friendly. And that voice! But if I wrote what I think about Dahl I'd get your website shut down, and that's the very last thing I want. All the very best to you, Alida
@@alidabaxter5849 You are too kind and so tolerent. Poor Pat. She eally had bad luck in the male department. As for Lionel Jeffreis, I adore him! Especially in "Murder Ahoy" with Margaret Rutherford and delightful Joan Benham and in "First Men In The Moon". Both movies show off his sniffing / "Nose out of joint" comic skill to perfection. Steve
I think Michael Rennie is fantastic.
I have the hugest crush on him! Love those cheekbones and that naturally suave attitude.. Thanks for watching!
My wife and I think you're the best reviewer on the net! We also love the old classics and Horror/ Sci-Fi being my favorite makes it fascinating to see your insight on these old gems. Thank you for doing this!
My great pleasure. So glad you enjoy them!
And to think that they moved the Anzio beachhead from Italy to Korea just for this movie! I'm impressed. Not to mention amazed. Maybe even astounded. Thanks for pointing this out, TOQ.
I can't express the affect this movie had on me. It was released the year I was born. The first time I saw it was on NBC Saturday Night Movie in prime time in 1962! I was 11 and it super charged my imagination and gave me a lifelong love of Science Fiction and Fantasy. I remember sitting there watching it in absolute awe and I never miss a chance to watch it on TMC or wherever. Of course I had it on Video Tape and watched it at least once a year! Thanks for the great review!!
I love this one too and saw the exact same screening of it on good ole' "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies" in 1962! My favorite show & never missed it!
It is so entertaining watching your videos, I look forward to them every month.
I'm so glad!
Thanks for doing this movie! One of my favorites. Love your whole series. Hope you'll continue with this for years to come.
I plan to and thank you so mcuh, as always!
I remember watching this on channel 9 New York it was riveting especially to a kid! I think when we were acting up as kids, my mother used to repeat Michael Rennie’s command to Gort. It was wild! Thanks for reminding me of this absolute gem.
You're welcome! I firts saw it in the '60's on NBC Staurday Night ASt The MOvies and it scared me to death! " Klaatu! Barrada! Nikto!"
Interesting. Just a point of accuracy. Anzio was not a Korean battle.
WwII in Italy.
Another great pick. You just keep dishing out great movies and I just love your presentations. You're just so entertaining! I've been following your content since you appeared on TCM with THEM!. John Bixler is very good. I think I saw him in an ad once. I wish more people would recognize his talent and give him parts in movies and TV. Best wishes to both of you. And thank you for your amazing work! I hope we'll see more of it real soon. I keep returning to your channel hoping for more...
Johnny was so glad to hear this! Thanks so much for watching!
I have a Klaatu barada nikto tattoo. I plan on getting a Gort one at some point. One of my absolute favorite films of all time. A total lesson in humanity and the message was ahead of it's time.
LOL! TATOO BARAD NIKTO! I love this film! Thanks so much!! So delghted you watch! Do you subscribe? If not, PLEASE do!
Michael Rennie really carried this off. Thanks for another fab review.
Spencer Tracy or Claude Rains?! They're both great, but I don't think anyone would believe they were aliens.
Love you Steve, and love this show. Even when I've seen the movies, your descriptions keep me on the edge of my seat.
Thanks so much, Flora!
One of my favorites too
Brilliant movie and a brilliant review. One of my favourite movies, I can't stand the crappy remake.
Me neither!
The short story (Farewell to the Master) the movie is based on doesn't stand the test of time. The 1951 movie is a classic.
Frances Bavier ("Aunt Bee") is in this movie. She runs the boarding house.
Yup. She didn quite a few films around this time.
You are fabulous, as usual. I will have to watch this one. Oh, doncha just love Sam Jaffe's hair?
Yes, I've looked like him for years! Bless his ole' heart! Fabulous actor!
Steve Hayes, or any one else; can you confirm or clarify several comments about the film, that I had read over the years. That, in the scene where Gort takes Patricia Neal into the Space Ship, that if was intended or supposed to have been shot in color--greens, steel metalic blues; all to give an 'other world' effect. But that it was dropped due to budget costs. Thanks, and thanks for the post..I due wish you would dispense more of your valuble and chatty 'background' info and gossip, about the making of these films, and especially, ( and LOVING) the way you candidly set the delightful facts about our dear brothers, whose sexuality gets lost in the translation.
Sorry I can't help you with the technical info. But, thanks so much for watching.
Wish they'd stayed with the design for Gort/Gnut from the original story, "Farewell to the Master".!
I wouldn't know about that. This one works for me. Better than the re-make by far.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ Ain't it the truth! But the story's short and it's on-line. You might check it out sometime. In it, Patricia Neal's equivalent is a guy.
I loved this movie, Thanks for reviewing it. You Rock Steve!
Thanks I love it too!
Oh yeah I've seen the movie. One of my favorites. That and the mid 1980's remake of The Fly.
I wish David Bowie starred in remake but he already did an alien on The Man Who Fell To Earth. Michael and David look alike, kinda.
Like Steve's videos 10,893 times a day! He's da bomb!
This is still one of my all-time favorite SciFi films.
Mine too! So glad you are watching! Hope you subscribe. Many thanks. Steve
Good to see you again, you're lookin' swell...
+daniel stanwyck
I'm so glad you liked this! Hope you had a terrific Halloween and thank you for watching TOQ!!! Best; Steve
I am impressed that you chose not to slam the sad excuse that was the remake. No all remakes are worse, but to me this original is untouchable.
This movie scared the “pooh” out of me as a kid. Saw it for the first time on the television program “Saturday Night at the Movies.”
Klatu barrata nickto!
Absolutely! As a kid I was mesmerized!
Thanks for all of these reviews. They're addictive. However, with the exception of "Separate Tables" you haven't really reviewed any Rita Hayworth movies (who is my personal fave). I would love to hear what you have to say about the Love Goddess in her signature role as "Gilda". Also, both our birthdays are coming up soon and you really should say something about Bette Davis in her bravura performance as Fanny Skeffington in "Mr Skeffington"...about the passage of time and the loss of ones beauty.
+Dee Bernard
I'll put some Rita Hayworth on my to do list! Thanks so much!!!
Dee Bernard Aren't all Bette's performances bravura?
I sneaked to see this on TV after bedtime when I was a kid.
Naughty! But great!
Bernard Hermann; yay!
Any movie with a Herrmann score was that much better. My favorite film composer.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ I'm happy to learn that you're still "on the air." Most of the reviews I've watched are years old. Congratulations on all your efforts and knowledge and wit. I'll be watching.
you give me life!!
A kid going off for the day with a stranger? The fifties, eh?
Yup. "Don't take candy from strangers or ride with aliens." LOL!
Steve, would you please consider reviewing Robinson Crusoe On Mars? It’s become a cult classic in the sci fi genre. One of my favorite films from my 1960s boyhood! Thanks Steve. Love your channel, the reviews and your wit. 🏳️🌈
I''ll put it on my "to do" list tonigh! Thanks for the kind words and for watching! Best; Steve
Anzio is not in Korea. But you just said that to trick us, right?
I sometimes think I won't watch "The Day the Earth Stood Still" when it airs, but if I hear just one second of the score - I'm hooked.
Good ole' Bernard Herrmann, never fails to hook you in!
Yay! I've missed my TOQ.
I confuse Michael Rennie with Peter Cushing. "Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, also known as Governor Tarkin, is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, primarily portrayed by Peter Cushing. " Princess Leia had these words for him: "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
―Leia Organa
+Floor Encer haha I never new Tarkin's middle name.
I love your reviews
Thanks, Roz! I lve you for oving them! Thank you for watching and your continued supposrt! Best Wishes; Steve
It's a Christ parable -- that's why Rennie's pseudonym bears the initials "JC".
Forbidden planet and the H.G. Wells Time Machine are two of my favorite sci-fi movies. 🍿 🎟️
Good choices.
It premiered Sept 18th,1951.
Thank you!!!!
No, thank you for watching! have a wonderful summer! Best; Steve
Could there’s be any better people to have dinner with than Steve and Johnny????
Thanks, but you wouldn't say that if ypu tasted my cooking. LOL!
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ oh but Schatzie I would do the cooking. Italian dinner with German desserts!!!!!
@@jaykauffman4775 If you're talking about dinner, that's one thing. If you're talking about men... that's another. Both delicious!
You’re preaching to the choir!! Born and grew up in Germany and also often vacationed in Italy. Also fond of the Scandinavians- they don’t call them Great Danes for nothing!!!
@@jaykauffman4775 Halleluyah! To misquote a famous Swedish film of my youth; " I am Curious... PERIOD!"
5:43 He didn’t die in Korea. Anzio is in Italy, and it says right on the tombstone that he died in WWII.
Okay.
Love the movie and love you!!
LOVE YOU MORE!!! OXOXOXO
Just found your channel and it's fabulous!!! Is Johnny your partner?
No. Johnny is purely my " Partner In Crime". Thanks for watching and I hope you subscribe! Take care and Best Wishes; Steve
One of my favorites
Mine too, Lovely! OXOX
After first seeing Terminator II at the theater. I thought cool, now maybe we can get a great Silver Surfer movie. As well as a remake of the DTESS with Christopher Reeve as Klattu. Sadly none of that never happened back in the early 1990's. Instead we got this crappy remake. Loved your review even though your facts weren't that accurate. The kid's father was killed in WWII in Europe in 1944. The Gort suit was made of foam rubber and fiberglass. Lock Martin was remember by a studio executive on one of the top people working on the film. He saw him at the theater once. Some lower exec gave the script to Spencer Tracy. Who loved it and wanted the role. But the head guy said no. Everyone knows Tracy, he has to be a total unknown to American audiences to be believable as Klattu. Besides the both stars were way too short to play a tall character. Someone working on the film. Had just recently came back from London and saw Michael Rennie in a play on stage. He was b actor or small supporting role/extra in movies in England. This was his first major starring role.
Another gem!
I love you and Johnny!! I know I say that every time!! 💙💜💜
Never stop!! Please!!! We love it!!
Isn't this where they make sure Pat Neal has to say, "Klaatu Barata Nikto..?"
YUP!
Classic movie & Classic review!
You're right. This movie did thrill me.
I knew it!!!
love this film AND you! But tell me WHY any woman would leave her child in the care of a total stranger?
If it was Michael Rennie, I would have had a child WITH him!
😂😂 Me,too, though a new star would have to rise over Bethlehem😂
He says his name is Carpenter. Jesus was a carpenter.
Michael Ronnie is perfect!
Yes, Rennie is perfection.
Anzio, Korea?
This movie gave my gay man's crush on Patricia Neal. I've loved her ever since.
I'm with you. That no-nonsense attitude combined with that smokey voice made her irresistible! Thanks for watching! Best; Steve
Killed in WWll not korea